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Who was sargon
Ruler of neighbooring Akkad, conquered and invaded Sumer's city-states
who built the first empire
sargon
who is marduk
babylonian god
who is Assurbanipal
he was the king of nineveh, founded the first library, the scirbes wrote everything in cuneiform and provided a wealth of info
assur
god of the assyrians
who was - Nebuchadnezzar
ruthless and agressive king of babylon who rebuilt palaces, temples, buildings, canals , zigguarts and more. he rebuilt hanging gardens for his wife who was homesick
cyrus the great
largest empire, from asia minor to idea
daris
ruled persia, tolerance of relgions, made a money economy, split his land into provinces (satrap)
zoroaster
united his empire - made a new religion for everybody, rejected their gods, taught of ahura mazda who was good contstant battle iwth evil prince
zend-avesta
bok that spoke of the gods, said that ahura won
judgement day
judged everybody if they have done good or not
Phoenicians
fame from sailors and trading, string of cities - along coast of Mediterranean
manfucaturing
tyerian dye - from snails of tyre
scroll - egyptian paper, for books
glass from sand
trade (phoenicans)
tin from england
babylon
imporvoed irrigtion, good army, promoted murduk
hittites
turned ore to iron, could do it cheapily, cheap way to arm more people,
assyrian
upper tigris, feared warriors
israel split
north = israel
south = judah
israel fallen
irsael = assyrians (cryus)
judha = babylon (nebazzner)
releasing the jews
when cryus took over nebanezzer he freed the jews
perciles
greek statesman - democracy culture
platos book
the repubic - his perf gov't
artistotle
good and bad examples of everything
minoan civilzation
island of crete in aegean sea - florished trade routes then vanished
- Mycenaean civilization
peloponnesan peninsula , sea trading strong military some written recrds
oligarchies
govt controled by the people
archigaries
land holding elite ruled
peloponnesian war
athen vs sparta , sparta won, marthon ran to tell everyone