Egypt and Mesopotamia Flashcards
Present day Iraq, Israel, Syria
Fertile Crescent
Between Euphrates and Tigris River
Mesopotamia
When was the world’s first civilization created?
3300 BC
World’s first civilization
Sumer
What was the key to development for the Sumer?
Rivers
What did the Sumer first make?
Four wheeled vehicles
Believed in more than one god
polytheistic
performed rituals, prayed, offered sacrifices in _____
ziggurats
What did the Sumer believe in?
multiple gods/ after life
Sumer invented the earliest known _____
writing
What did the Sumer write on?
clay tablets
What did the Sumer establish?
number system
When did the Hammurabi take over?
1790 BC
What did the Hammurabi code include?
civil and criminal law
Laws that refer to divorce, taxes, businesses
civil
Laws that refer to murder, assault, robbery
crime
When did the Hittites come into power?
1400 BC