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Describe the sequence of events that led up to the development of Mesopotamia

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  • 12,000 years ago hunter - gather groups first settled in Mesopotamia
  • Eventually people learned how to plant and grow their own crops
  • floods ever year brought silt which made the land good for farming
  • large amounts of good food allowed the population to grow which formed villages
  • early villages developed Mesopotamia
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What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?

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Made of two Greek words - mesos or middle and potamos or river

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What two rivers delineate this area?

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Tigris River and Euphrates River

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What is a surplus?

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More than they needed

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What were the canals used for

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They connected to ditches and the ditches brought the water to the fields

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6
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When did the first cities develop in Mesopotamia

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Between 4000 and 3000 BC

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What are hunters and gatherers

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People who hunt animals, and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

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What is a city-state

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Consisted of a city and all the countryside surrounding it

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Why would city-states fight each other?

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To gain more farmland

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Who was the first group to come to power after Hammurabi?

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The Hittites and Kassites

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Who served the role between the Sumerians and the gods

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Priests

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12
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What did people do with surplus food

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More people left farming and picked up or created other jobs

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13
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What were scribes? Were they powerful?

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Scribes - a writer, powerful - yes, allowed you to move up in social class, hired to keep track of items people traded and they could be hired by government officials and temples to keep their records

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Why was Mesopotamia an ideal place for a civilization to develop?

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The soil was rich so it was good for farming, they also had advanced technology for their time period

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Name one Sumerian technical advance and tell how it made people’s lives easier

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Cuneiform - writing system, kept track of items

Wheel - easier to move items with

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16
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Do you think Hammurabi was a good ruler? Why or why not?

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Yes, he was a Great War leader and he brought all Mesopotamia into his Empire

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This Gulf can be found at the mouth of the Tigris Rivet and the Euphrates River.

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Persian Gulf

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18
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Who developed the world’s first civilazation?

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Sumerians

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This King was a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.

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Gilgamesh

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20
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Sumerians used these to etch cuneiform into clay tablets.

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Styluses - sharp tools

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21
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Which group is known as purple people? Why?

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Phoenicians- they used purple dye for royalty robes

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Which group of invaders had the first Iron Weapons?

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Hittites and Kassites

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23
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What are civilizations?

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People in a village who have advanced technology work together to live in an organized way of living

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24
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Discus the importance of irrigation. What is it?

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Irrigation - ensures a constantly supply of water which is necessary to grow crops, irrigation - artificial application of water to the land or soil

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25
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What was the first major civilazation called?

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Mesopotamia

26
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What is the oldest piece of literature known to man?

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

27
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Name some Sumerian inventions

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The invention of writing- cuneiform, developed math system based on 60, the wheel

28
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Who wrote the first code of laws that we know of?

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Hammurabi- Hammurabi’s Code

29
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What is unique about city- states?

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They have their own form of civilazation and each city - state had it’s own way of doing things

30
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What are the 8 Features of a Civilazation and be able to describe each?

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  • Public Works - the work of building nessecary items in order to run a civilazation
  • cities - starts with growing crops, population grows as food grows
  • organized central government- people try to figure out how make their city or area better
  • complex religions - religious leaders conduct huge ceremonies to appease and insure a good harvest
  • job specialization - the work of figuring out which job you are allowed to have
  • social class - the rank in which you are placed in society based on your job
  • writing - used to keep track of items
  • art and architecture- expressed beliefs and values of the civilazation
31
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What is a map key

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Where all the symbols and meanings are located

32
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What are symbols

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Drawings that represent something on the map

33
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What is a compass

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Tells directions on map

34
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Large area of good farmland

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Fertile Cresecent

35
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A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks

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Silt

36
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A way of supplying water to an area of land

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Irrigation

37
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Human made waterways

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Canals

38
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More than people need

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Surplus

39
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An arrangement where each worker specializes in a particular task or job

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Division of labor

40
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Countryside

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Rural

41
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City

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Urban

42
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Consisted of a city and all the country side surrounding it

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City- state

43
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One of Uruk’s Kings

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Gilgamesh

44
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Wanted to extend Akkadian territory

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Sargon

45
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Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule

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Empire

46
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The worship of many gods

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Polytheism

47
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People who performed religious ceremonies

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Priests

48
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The division of society by rank or class

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Social hierarchy

49
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The world’s first writing system

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Cuneiform

50
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Picture symbols

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Pictographs

51
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Writer

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Scribe

52
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Long poems that tell the stories of heroes

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Epics

53
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The science of building

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Architecture

54
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A pyramid shaped temple tower

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Ziggurat

55
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A ruler of a kingdom or empire

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Monarch

56
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A set of 283 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

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Hammurabi’s Code

57
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A wheeled, horse drawn cart used in battle

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Chariot

58
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The most famous Chaldean King, rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city

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Nebuchadnezzar

59
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A set of letters that can be combined to form words

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Alphabet

60
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Something that becomes a part of your daily life

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Role

61
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Something that changes you through thoughts and or actions

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Impact

62
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Why did cops grow well in Mesopotamia?

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It laid between two rivers

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