Mesopotamia Flashcards
What did the civilization start with?
Hunter/ Gathers
What is something they had
subsistence farming
move from from place to place (don’t have permanent home)
normads
a mixture of tiny rocks and rich soil
silt
What type of farming did they have
Large scale
tamed animals
Domesticated
different people good at different things/ dividing people at what they are good at
Division of Labor
What did they organize
religion and worship
A civilization likely had
Large concentrated populations, building projects, prestige, religion, territory marking, writing (for the elite), Armies, social classes, organized religion, art
what was good about mesopotamia
fertile crescent and good land to farm
what are the two bodies of water that are on either side of the fertile crescent
Meditoradian and Persian Golf
what did they have
a lot of movement, connections, trade
the process by which a cultural trait, object, idea, or behavior is spread from one society to another.
cultral diffusion
what does mesopotamia mean
between the rivers
what two river is mesopatamia between
Euphrates and Tigris
what was mesopotamia orginaly
modern day Iraq
where did the first civilation begin
Mesopotamia
What was the first civilation
Sumer
what is a saying for mesopatamia
the cradle of civilations
When was the first civilation
3500 BC
what are the things that the sumerians made
wheel, plow, sewers, bronze, base 60 number system, 7 day week, 12 month year, toys, board games, magnifying glass, astronomy, maps, musical instruments
what was the main political unit
city states
why did people fight
for farmland
what did they built
armies and walls
what was hammurabi apart of
babyloans
what type of armies did the babyloans have
strong armies
when was the arkadians
2300
when was the sumerians
3500 BC
what does BC stand for
before Christ
what does AD stand for
Anno Domini
what does CE stand for
Common Era
what does BCE stand for
before common era
what does circa /C or CA stand for
around a certain year or period of years
what type of armies did the Akkadians have
strong armies
what did the Akkadians have
Iron and chariots
what was Akkadian capital
Nineveh
ships propelled by oarsmen
galleys
when was the chaldeans
652
what did the chaldeans have
hanging gardens
what were the chaldeans
neo-babylonians
what did the phoenicians create
alphabet
who was sargon
the first empire and had the first permanent army. He was a ruler and a military leader
worshiping many gods
polythesim
a land with different territories and people under a single rule
empire
a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
Hammurabi’s Code
a wheeled, horse-drawn chart used in a battle
chariot
a set of letters that can be combined to form words
alphabet
