Traditions and Encounters Ch 1
Gibbs, Dylan
Period 5, Ap World History
8/25/13
Chapter 2 Epic of Gilgamesh Agricultural ecomomies City congrigation Mesopatamia Community benifeit Irrigation systems Sargon Hammurabi Lex talionis Assyrians Colapse of babylonia Administrative techniques Advanced weapons Complex society Mettalurgic innovation alloyed weapons Agriculture slaves Writing Literacy Abstract ideas Hebrews Israelites and Jews Hebrews Israelites The Phoenicians | The epic of Gilgamesh is a story of a hero that kils an evil monster. He discovers a magical plant that makes him immortal. Agricultural economies supported the development of the worlds first complex societies. Large numbers of people lived in these societies. As people congrigated in cities, people used states throughout mesopotamia to encourgae creation of empires. Mesopatamia comes from the greak words meaning “the land between two rivers”. Government officials of many cities started using tax money to pay for public buildings like temples and walls in around 3,500 B.C.E. Irrigation systems were very important complexes for farming, paid for by tax money. Sargon's empire was highly conquering based. He and his army would roam around, and be supported by any city they happen to roam to. Hammurabi thought he should give a code of law to his empire. He borrowed ideas and compiled lots of previous laws into a law code. This code was very strict. Lex talonis is the idea of punishing some one with the same deed that they did to the purson they attacked (eg killing a murderer). Assyrians were people of mesopatamia who a after the colapse of babylonia, Many states like Assyria were struggling for power. Many kingdoms from around the time of the assyrians relied largely on the administrative techniques of the predecessing babylonians. Even though Mesopatamia had superior technology over its neighbors a long time, it was eventially
Period 5, Ap World History
8/25/13
Chapter 2 Epic of Gilgamesh Agricultural ecomomies City congrigation Mesopatamia Community benifeit Irrigation systems Sargon Hammurabi Lex talionis Assyrians Colapse of babylonia Administrative techniques Advanced weapons Complex society Mettalurgic innovation alloyed weapons Agriculture slaves Writing Literacy Abstract ideas Hebrews Israelites and Jews Hebrews Israelites The Phoenicians | The epic of Gilgamesh is a story of a hero that kils an evil monster. He discovers a magical plant that makes him immortal. Agricultural economies supported the development of the worlds first complex societies. Large numbers of people lived in these societies. As people congrigated in cities, people used states throughout mesopotamia to encourgae creation of empires. Mesopatamia comes from the greak words meaning “the land between two rivers”. Government officials of many cities started using tax money to pay for public buildings like temples and walls in around 3,500 B.C.E. Irrigation systems were very important complexes for farming, paid for by tax money. Sargon's empire was highly conquering based. He and his army would roam around, and be supported by any city they happen to roam to. Hammurabi thought he should give a code of law to his empire. He borrowed ideas and compiled lots of previous laws into a law code. This code was very strict. Lex talonis is the idea of punishing some one with the same deed that they did to the purson they attacked (eg killing a murderer). Assyrians were people of mesopatamia who a after the colapse of babylonia, Many states like Assyria were struggling for power. Many kingdoms from around the time of the assyrians relied largely on the administrative techniques of the predecessing babylonians. Even though Mesopatamia had superior technology over its neighbors a long time, it was eventially