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Ishtar

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-was worshiped with temple prostitution

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Hammurabi

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-Amorite king of Babylon
-Founded the First Babylonian Dynasty
-Hammurabi Stele shows him recieving his laws from either shamash or marduk
-Stele stolen by alamites
Assyria regained independence after death
-Won campaigns against the Elamites
-Ruled till 1792-1750 B.C

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Amorites

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Fierce, semi-nomadic warriors, migrated from northern Syrian to Mesopotamia

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Babylon

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“Gate of the Gods”

  • Founded 1894 B.C.E
  • Bad rep in cultural imagination because of its depiction in the bible
  • Hammurabi was the king
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Mesopotamia

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-Sumerian city-states emerged in southern -Mesopotamia between 4000-3000 BC
-several versions of the flood myth
early civilizations went into decline, and the last dynasty fell to an Elamite invasion

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Sumerians

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-Society Extremely hierarchical

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The Sumerian King List

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  • Mixes mythology and history

- Various Sumerian cities were never united but different ones were more powerful at different times

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Ramses II

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  • Pharaoh
  • Victory against the Hittites at battle of Kadesh
  • Ruled into his 90’s
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Osiris

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  • Egyptian Deity

- Story between Isis and Osiris shows Egyptian’s active belief in life after death

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Isis

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  • Egyptian Deity

- Wife of Osiris

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Narmer

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  • Pharaoh
  • Founder of the first Egyptian dynasty and unifier of upper and lower Egypt
  • thought to either be, or be an enemy of, King Scorpion II
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Amenhotep

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-Scandalized Egypt changing name to Akhenaten, moving capital from Thebes to Armarna, and mandating worship of Aten.

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Maat

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  • Upholder of truth, balance, order, and existence itself

- Without Maat, the universe would be reabsorbed into Nun

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Senet

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-Board Game of the pre-dynastic period

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Akhenaten

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  • Amenhotep fake name
  • Short reign
  • Succeeded by nine-year-old son Tutankhaten
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hymn to the Aten

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longest of one of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten.

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King Tut

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  • Son of Akhenaten
  • Tutankhaten real name
  • pressured to chang named to tutankhamun and restore the cult of old gods
  • reigned 10 years
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the pyramids

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Constructed during the Old Kingdom

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mummification

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-Meant to preserve body until the soul could be judged in the afterlife

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Egyptian royal marriage Practices

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  • Expected to marry within the family

- Believed god Osiris married his sister Isis to keep their bloodline pure

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The minotaur

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  • half-man, half-bull that devoured sacrificial victims thrown into the labyrinth.
  • Killed by theseus
  • Head of a bull and body of a man
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Howard Carter

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archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

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Hittites

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  • Lost to Ramses in Battle of Kadesh (1274)

- occupied region of Anatolia

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The Snake Goddess

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  • could show a goddess, or priestess of some kind

- depicts woman holding snake in each hand

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Cretan hieroglyphics

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Writing system used on small portable objects like seal stones

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The santorini eruption

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-Resulted in partial decline of the Minoan’s

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Heinrich Schliemann

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German archaeologist and excavator of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns

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The legend of Troy

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-Heinrich rediscovered ruins of troy

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Homer

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  • Blind poet

- Author of Iliad, & the Odyssey.

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The Sea Peoples

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  • Confederacy of tribes from diff regions of the Mediterranean
  • Sherden both invaders and mercenaries in Egypt
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The Odyssey

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-Homer

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The Sherden

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  • One of the best Sea Peoples

- Invaders and mercenaries

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Ammurapi

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last bronze age ruler and king of the ancient Syrian city of ugarit

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David and Bathsheba

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  • Committed adultery
  • David Impregnated Bathsheba
  • Nathan told David son was expected to die
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The Book of Lamentation

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-Collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem

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The Amarna letters

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  • Written on clay tablets

- Diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru

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Asherah

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mother deity worshiped in Ugarit

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El

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The head of gods worshiped in ugarit

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Megafauna

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  • giant animals that weighed over 40 kilograms

- many speculate that worldwide spread of humans caused a mass extinction of mega fauna

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Gilgamesh

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  • King of Uruk
  • Part God and part man
  • Tale of a great flood
  • King’s quest for fame, glory, and immortality through heroic deeds.
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Ziggurats

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  • Massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia
  • Temple
  • The ancient Sumerians, believed their gods lived in the sky. In order for the gods to hear better, you needed to get closer to them.
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The Neolithic Revolution

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  • Transition from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to settled farmers
  • Began around 10,000 B.C
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Cuneiform

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  • System of writing developed by ancient Sumerians

- Shape of a wedge

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Hieroglyphics

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  • Picture based writing

- People who wrote in hieroglyphs were referred to as scribes

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Old Kingdoms

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  • Great Pyramids and Sphinx
  • Pyramids constructed during this time
  • Intermediate period
  • Downfall included period of drought, rise to power of local rulers, expenses incurred in pyramids.
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Middle Kingdoms

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-Intermediate period

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New Kingdoms

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  • Royal dead buried in Valley of kings

- Intermediate period

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