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City-States in Mesopotamia Flashcards

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What is the Fertile Crescent, and why is it called that?

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  • An arc of land that provided the best farming in Southwest Asia because of its shape and the richness of the soil
  • called that bc of its Curved shape and richness of the land
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Name three disadvantages of Sumer’s
natural environment.

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  1. Unpredictable flooding + a period of little rain
  2. No natural barriers for protection
  3. Natural resources were limited
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Time Period

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3500-1600 BC

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Rivers

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Euphrates and Tigris

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Cities

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Sumer, Uruk

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Physical Boundaries

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Rivers

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Significant Figures

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Enlil and Ugally, Hammurabi

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Religious Foundation

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Polytheistic

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style of political/government rule

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theocracy

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define:

theocracy

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leader makes decisions about cities’ religion

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Notable Achievements

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Irrigation, agriculture, cuneiform, rule of laws

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reason for collapse/end

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The Babylonian Empire overtook them

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Mesopotamia

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Land between two rivers

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Silt

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the dirt left behind when the rivers flooded

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Cuneiform

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the mesopotamian writing system

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Ziggurat

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pyramid-like monuments and temples for the gods

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City-State

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A city and its surrounding land that it controlled like countries are governed today

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Tigris

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one of the two rivers that border mesopotamia. flows on the north and east side

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Euphrates

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one of the two rivers that border mesopotamia, flows on the south and west side

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Zagros Mtns are located where?

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north and east side of mesopotamia, right behind the tigris river

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Fertile Crescent

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the only fertile area (place you can plant in) in the place (surrounded by deserts)

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cultural diffusion

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When ideas/things are spread from culture to culture

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polytheism

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the belief in many gods

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dynasty

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A line of successors that is passed down from father to son

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Persian Gulf

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located under mesopotamia

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Ur

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a major city in mesopotamia that controlled much of the trade into Mesopotamia

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sumer

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the earliest known region of southern mesopotamia

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uruk

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the capital city of giglamesh, a large city-state, trade, specialization of crafts and teh evolution of writing

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Nippur

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ancient sumarian city, the religious center of mesopotamia

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Babylon

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the amorites invaded mesopotamia and made babylon their capital, hammurabi ruled in its peak

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Hammurabi

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made a code of laws, sixth king in the babylon dynasty

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what were hammurabi’s laws abt?

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  • Deals with everything that affected his community
    - Family relations
    - Business conduct
    - Crime
  • based on “an eye for an eye”
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What were the positives of mesopotamia?

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  • The silt that you get from flooding
  • Writing (cuneiform)
  • Writing leads to history
  • Trade, which led them to be the first territorial kingdom
  • Taxes → stable social orders
  • Hammarabi’s code introduced the “presumption of innocence”
  • “Brutal, terrifying, efficient army”
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What were the negatives of mesopotamia?

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  • Conflict between people and city
  • Unpredictable flooding
  • Hammarabi’s code was built on “an eye for an eye”, but could be unjust
  • Empires are hard to unify
  • They had to conquer cities in order to please the gods
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Central Institutions (government, religion, law, etc)

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  • created ziggurats to worship the gods and had priests that could connect with them as rulers
  • had a code of laws to establish order once an empire emerged.
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Record Keeping

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  • written records in cuneiform for taxes and debts, trading, and record keeping for current events that were dramatic and note-worthy.
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Innovative Technology

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  • the irrigation systems
  • bronze
  • the wheel for pottery.
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Specialized Workers

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People could do things other than farming with the surplus of food. That’s how specialized workers came to be. Two examples of these specialized workers are artists and scribes.

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King Sargon of Akkad

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created the first empire

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