Mesopotamia

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Donald Johanson

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Scientist who unearthed a female hominid named Lucy in Ethiopia

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Tools of Discovery: Anthropologist and Archaeologist

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Archaeologists-people who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might have once been
Anthropologists-scientists who study how humans developed and the related to one another
Artifacts- dug up weapons, tools, and other things made by humans

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Otzi the Iceman

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Frozen body was discovered

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Mesopotamian Civilization

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6 thins required to form a civilization:cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system

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Rise of Sumer

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Located in the Fertile Crescent; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

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Writing

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Cuneiform- consisted of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with a sharp-ended reed

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Sumerian Literature

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Epic of Gilgamesh- world’s oldest known story: an Epic- long poem that tells the story of a hero

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Hammurabi

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Created the Babylonian Empire

Known for his code or collection of laws

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Why were the Assyrians so strong?

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Well-organized military was well-organized
Ferocious warriors
First army to use iron weapons

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The Great City of Babylon

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became the largest and richest city

Chaldeans made one of the first sundials and seven-day week