World History Chapter 3 Flashcards
Mesopotamia
(4,000 BCE- 612 BCE) Home of the first civilizations
What was the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
Summeria
What did Sumerians rely on for a plentiful harvest
annual floods that made the soil rich
What religion were the Sumerian People?
Polytheism which was a belief in many gods (3,000 in fact!)
What were Ziggurats
Religious temples that regulated trades as well as a storage place for surplus supplies
Theocracy was
Priests held authoritative role through divine right
When was Cuniform invented and what was it?
Cuneiform was the Sumerian way of writing which was invented 3,000BCE and used wedge shaped impressions with reeds of clay on a tablet which were later dried
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What were cuneiform writers called?
Scribes
Who was the first great writer who wrote Epics
Gilgamesh
Where were the first schools
Summeria
What was Sumeria made up of
City states, which were each politically independent
and each had own government, king, and army D;
Tax Collectors were
Priests
What happened to the city states
They fought over food, land, and water which led to the downfall of Summeria
What was something super important the Sumerians invented?
The time system (60 secs= 1 min 60 min= 1 hour)
What was Mesopotamia’s second great civilizations
Akkadia (2334-2279 BCE) Lead by King Sargon | who is considered the first great king
King Sargon United what
the City states of Sumeria
What happened around 1900 BCE
The Sumerian City states fell to a northern Rival, Babylonia
What language did Akkadians Speak?
A Systematic Language called dialects
Where did the Babylonians live?
The western half of the fertile crecent
Who was the most well known Babylonian leader?
Hammurabi
Whomstdve’yall’‘n’th conquered Northern Sumerian Cities like Sumer and Akkad to create the Babylonian Empire around 1800 BCE
Hammurabi
What is Hammurabi most famous for?
The list of 282 laws called Hammurabi’s code (The first time laws were written out)
What were the laws in Hammurabi’s code based off of?
“Eye for an eye” In where the punishment was as bad as the crime. However the punishment for the same crime varied depending on what class u were
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