ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Flashcards
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIANS
ARCHEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
SEXAGESIMAL NUMERAL SYSTEM
USED WITH MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS, QUADRATIC AND CUBIC EQUATIONS,
FRACTION
SEXAGESIMAL PLACE-NOTATION
BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF 60, 60 MINS, 60 SECS
MESOPOTAMIAN PRIEST STUDIED
CELESTIAL PHENOMENON THRU OBSERVATIONS
CALCULATED THE MOVEMENTS OF THE
___________ AND ______________
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
FORSEE LUNAR AND SOLAR ECLIPSE
RISING OF THE SUN TO ITS SETTING WAS RECORDED
USING SUNDIAL
12 HRS __________ 12 HRS ____________
DAYLIGHT, DARKNESS
ASTRONOMY FOR
CHART THE STARS, LEADING TO THE CREATION OF THE CALENDAR
CODE OF HAMMURABI
EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF UNDERSTANDING DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS, PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND PRESCRIPTIONS OF DISEASE
THEY HAD SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF WHAT AFFECTED THE HUMAN BODY 18TH CENTURY BC
EARLIEST MESOPOTAMIANS
the herbal handbook that
reveals the descriptions of the herbs and their indications.
Library of Ashurbanipal
the system of writing that was invented
__________. This writing system was used to convey ideas
_______- and communicate using a too known as the “________”.
3600-3500 BC
on trade
“stylus”
CUNEIFORM
LATIN WORD MEANS EDGE
CUNEUS
words were written
by pressing a wedge-like stylus into the clay tablets.
CUNEUS
largely helped in trade and war. The
wheel was used largely for the potter’s wheel, which later
was for carts, chariots to facilitate transportation. It greatly
helped them in carry heavy load as early as 3500 BC. This
became also the basis for the creation of a sail where the
effect of the wind on a sail was used to navigate bodies of
water.
WHEEL AND SAIL
