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Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3 Flashcards

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Uruk

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  • extensive canal system and ziggurats
  • priests controlled ziggurats because they communicated with gods
  • violent, unpredictable flooding
  • palaces start showing up
  • cuneiform (not everyone can read and write)
  • ended 2,000 BCE
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Hammurabi

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  • ruled Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE

- Code of Hammurabi

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note

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  • people were deported
  • generals were picked for how good they were
  • Ashur kept the world going through the king
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Assyrian

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  • spread empire too much to take care off

- 612 BCE Nineveh was conquered

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