The Cradle Of Civilization Flashcards

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Referred to as the cradle of civilization is where humanity earliest city’s culture and innovation flourished

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Near east

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Known as the world’s first civilization and its people of southern mesopotamia

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Sumerians

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Sumerians invented ___a latin word meaning wedge shape it is the earliest form of written language

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Cuneiform

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A group of semitic people build an akadian empire founded by sargon of akkad

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Akkadians

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Akkadians language is drawn from a family of language called

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Semitic language

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Located in central and southern mesopotamia.

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Babylonians

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Who is the famous king of babylonians

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King hammurabi

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A major semitic kingdom of the ancient near east and reminded as independence state in 19th century

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Assyrian

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What babylonians achievement they have?

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Code of hammurabi, astronomy and mathematics using base 60 numbers of system and timekeeping

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Assyrian achievement

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Advanced technology, use of iron weapons sedge tactics and create a library

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Become one of the largest empires in history stretching from europe’s balkan peninsula in the west to india’s indus valley founded by cyrus the great

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Persian empire

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