agriculture during the Neolithic era. Neolithic. See: 15-20 in Traditions and Encounters 3. Discuss the early development of Sumer. Sumer‚ Standard of Ur‚ Ziggurat. See: 21-35 4. Outline the causes and effects of a written cultural tradition in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi‚ Phoenicians‚ Gilgamesh‚ Indo-Europeans‚ Hittites‚ lex talionis‚ Yahweh‚ See: 35-42 5.Discuss the influences of Mesopotamian civilization on other regional societies. See: 37-42 6. Identify the key aspects and effects of the Indo-European
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drainpipes for human waste‚ shows a big advancement. The fact that there was a lot of metal scattered showed that most people were wealthy. There were also things that were not local which suggests that they traded. They traded with people as far as Mesopotamia. Due to the evidence that suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was very advanced‚ it is said that only a natural disaster could of brought down this
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the Hindu Kush and Himalayas to the North. The monsoons that are seasonal flood the rivers. The Shang dynasty was situated in China over the Yellow River. On the contrary the Sumerians were not isolated at all in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia was in the Fertile Crescent‚ which was why many invaders invaded their land‚ ultimately crushing them. The polytheistic religions of the early civilizations were rather similar. The Egyptians had pharaohs‚ which were
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story in the Hebrew Bible. top -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMER WAS IN MESOPOTAMIA Mesopotamia was in the geographical area that is today called Iraq. The name we call it‚ "Mesopotamia‚" is actually Greek for "between two rivers." The two rivers were the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia was the site of one of three earliest urban civilizations (along with the Indus Valley in India and the Nile Valley in Egypt). During
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to the streams (Document 4). Mesopotamia was also a civilization that was impacted by its geographic features. The Fertile Crescent was a main part of the Mesopotamian society. It helped with the development of the Mesopotamian society because the crops farmed in the Fertile Crescent could be traded with other countries for goods that the Mesopotamians could not provide for themselves. The Fertile Crescent was the reason that civilizations arose in Mesopotamia. This occurred because it opened
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Israel‚ Jordan and turkey (McKay‚ p.16) and was believed to be the home of some of the earliest civilizations in known history (McKay‚ p.34).Out of these civilizations‚ the city of Uruk is considered one of the most important civilizations in Mesopotamia at the time (Mark‚ Definition). Believed to have been founded by the king Enmerkar sometime around 4500 BCE (Mark‚ Definition)‚ this great city was a pioneer for many things including; writing‚ irrigation‚ building of the ziggurat and the development
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polytheist faith. Also‚ expanding on the idea of religion‚ both civilizations also believed in afterlife‚ if it meant a paradise-heaven or punishment-hell‚ which influenced many major religions in the future. Another similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia is that they originated from river valley-agricultural societies. As Egypt originated on the banks of the Nile and performed a majority of its farming in the Nile Delta‚ so did the Mesopotamians originate in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East
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Amorite Hammurabi transformed the seemingly minute part of Mesopotamia‚ he had to do something that no other leader had done before; use writing to persuade and convey power. He first did so in writing essentially using it as a weapon against his stronger neighbors in such a way that would rage war with one another to weaken them all the while making him a stronger more powerful leader. Although Babylon was a rather small city in Mesopotamia‚ Hammurabi used deceit to build what is known as the Old
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investigating the unknown. I would travel to the unheralded ancient city of Eridu at the mouth of the Euphrates River in contemporary Iraq‚ arguably the oldest antediluvian city on Earth. Eridu was the first of a series of city-states throughout Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent that comprised the first ancient civilization‚ Sumer. Archeologists have discovered historical evidence suggesting that the Sumerians were the first to develop a reliable writing system‚ cuneiform. They practiced slavery
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It was the autumn of 1927‚ and the hot Iraqi sun beat down on Sir Leonard Woolley as he and his crew continued to excavate the earth. He had been digging at the site of the ancient city of Ur‚ a relic of the civilization of Mesopotamia‚ and had found a plethora of artifacts about everyday life. However‚ what he was about to find was much‚ much more interesting. Instead of finding simple graves like before‚ Woolley had stumbled upon four tombs of elites‚ filled with riches of gold and other amazing
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