Sargon of akkad was a semitic akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city in the 22nd and 23rd centuries BC; The founder of the dynasty of Akkad. The Akkadians‚ was group of people who lived‚ also in Mesopotamia‚ also had conquered the Sumerians. They spoke a Semitic language similar to the modern language of Arabic. He was born as an humble son of a temple priestess of the goddess Innana and‚ according to the Sargon Legend he was set adrift by her in a basket on the Euphrates River
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May 4‚ 2012 COMPARE AND CONTRAST MONGOLS AND BYZANTINE EMPIRE The Mongols and Byzantium were similar and different in terms of state forms (both had provinces or khanates‚ but only Byzantium had a theocracy)‚ cultural exchange (trade flourished in both countries‚ but the ways in which cultural diffusion occurred differed)‚ and the effect each empire had on neighboring countries after they declined (they both heavily impacted the surrounding countries but how they declined differed)‚ and
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Chapter 1 ● Mesopotamia (TigrisEuphrates) ○ 80002000 BCE ■ Neolithic (New Stone Age) ■ Earliest Agriculture ○ City States (walled city and hinterland) sprung up around rivers ■ Citystates= characteristic of mesopotamia‚ Archaic and Classical Greece‚ Phoenicia‚ and early Italy ○ People living here= Sumerians ■ In Southern Mesopotamia by 5000 BCE ■ Responsible for making irrigation technology‚ cuneiform‚ religious concepts found in Mesopotamian culture ○ Lugal=Big Man (their leader‚
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Christianity is a religion that started over two-thousand years ago and for all these centuries‚ it has experienced many changes and continuity. It all started with a Jewish carpenter named Jesus. Jesus was crucified‚ but the next morning‚ Easter Sunday‚ there were many signs of him coming back from the dead in a new form. Disciples believed that Christ’s physical body came back from the dead while others believed it was a rebirth of the spirit and soul of Christ. After his followers were convinced
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and western India‚ it was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. (1) The Indus Valley Civilization‚ as it is called‚ covered an area the size of western Europe. It was the largest of the four ancient civilizations of Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ India and China. However‚ of all these civilizations the least is known about the Indus Valley people. This is because the Indus script has not yet been deciphered. There are many remnants of the script on pottery vessels‚ seals‚ and amulets‚ but
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Neolithic Revolution - changes in social‚ economic and political structures‚ increasing complexity‚ patriarchy‚ technological developments‚ increasing population Basics characteristic and locations of the following River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia (Sumerian city states and later Assyrian and Babylonian Empires) on the Tigris and Euphrates River Egypt on the Nile River Valley Harappan Civilization of the Indus River Valley Shang China in the Yellow River Valley Olmecs in Mesoamerica Chavin
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states (D) A group of humans who recognize any form of social hierarchy (E) A group of humans who practice agriculture 3. Which of the following First Civilizations relied on squash‚ beans‚ and guava but no grains as its primary crops? (A) Mesopotamia (B) Indus Valley (C) China (D) Egypt (E) Norte Chico 4. The map below supports the assertion that (A) everywhere agriculture developed independently a First Civilization also developed. (B) all First Civilizations developed along
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Egyptian civilization transformed mainly around the Nile River‚ the Nile being the world longest rivers. Both civilizations relied on these rivers as a source of food‚ transportation‚ and even a means of communication amongst themselves. Mesopotamia was a rather dry‚ however fertile floodplain that the aforementioned rivers created boundaries for. These rivers were boundaries for Mesopotamian civilization‚ but the boundaries stretched across a vast expanse of land. The Mesopotamian civilization
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organizations. Now fast forward four-and-a-half thousand years. The date is 1500 AD. Many monumental developments and changes have occurred. As time passes by‚ many changes occur throughout the world. In Southwest Asia and Asia‚ many changes and continuities in society and life occurred. An important change was that of gender affairs. Near the foundations of civilization‚ most societies were patriarchal‚ having the man of the household control all his property and make all the important decisions
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Chapter One-Introduction Anthropology: the study of humans in all times‚ situations‚ and places. Physical Anthropology: the scientific study of humans as biological organisms‚ in an evolutionary context. Branches of Physical Anthropology: Human evolution: the study of how and why our human ancestors changed over millions of years. Genetics: the mechanics of inheritance and how evolutionary change works. Paleoanthropology: the study of the fossil record of ancestral humans and
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