[M1S1] Flashcards
ancient mesopotamia came from the greek meaning what?
between two rivers
Was an ancient region located in the eastern
Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros
mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia was part of what?
Fertile Crescent (Cradle of Civilization)
what are the two rivers in modern-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria, Turkey, and Iran
Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
around what time did early civilizations begin to form?
Neolithic Revolutions (Stone Age) - 12,000BCE
Major Mesopotamian civilizations includes what
Sumerians,
Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.
inventions during ancient mesopotamia
● wheels ● chariot ● animal domestication ● agriculture ● weaponry ● wine ● common tools (hunting) ● sailboat ● map ● astronomy and astrology ● mathematics
what did the sumerians introduce?
the very first style of writing known as Cuneiform
this was created in order to maintain business
cuneiform
what was one of the world’s first
piece of literature written in cuneiform?
The Epic
of Gilgamesh
Around 3000 BCE, the Sumerians had significant cultural
interchange with a group in northern Mesopotamia known
as what?
akkadians
Akkadians is named after what?
the city-state Akkad
These languages are known
as Semitic languages.
Hebrew and Arabic language
Assyria had become a major empire after what?
collapse of Akkadian Empire
For 1400 years from the late twenty-first century BCE until
the late seventh century BCE, Assyrians were the
dominant power where?
in Mesopotamia, especially in the north
a minor city-state in central
Mesopotamia for a century after it
was founded in 1894 BCE
Babylon
when did things change during the Bablyon Empire?
during the reign of hammurabi (1792-1750)
what did hammurabi establish?
centralized bureaucracy with taxation
s a
code of law written on stone stele slabs and clay tablets.
code of hammurabi (1754)
how many laws did the code of hammurabi consist of? and how were the people punished?
282laws, punishments depended on social status
babylon lasted for how many years?
260 years
whed did babylon get invaded?
1531 BCE
during when did babylon assert itself again over the region? and with what empire?
626-539BCE with the Neo-Babylonian Empire
who overthrew the Babylonian Empire in 539?
Persians
until when did the Persians rule over the region?
until the time of Alexander the Great in 335 BCE
