other countries. The cognition of diplomacy practice begins around 2870 B.C.E‚ in this time diplomacy was the instrument used as the instrument of the superpower‚ which is deity‚ and religion was the dominant thing at the time. As what happened in Sumer as the site of the first independent urban communities. Sumerian city-states use diplomacy as mediation to resolve the problems of other cities under the rule of the super power (great god) of the cities. Diplomacy is also growing in Elba‚ focused
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The Epic of Gilgamesh dates back to as early as Bronze Age Mesopotamia‚ to the people of Sumer that told poems and legends of a great hero-king called Gilgamesh‚ the demigod ruler of Uruk (around 2500 BCE). The legends and poems were later gathered into a longer epic and written on clay tablets C. 1900 BCE. They were found in the mid nineteenth century and were later deciphered‚ and eventually published. The story is important not only to the people of the time or historians‚ but to everyday modern
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Thomas 10-23-13 Ancient Civilizations Ancient Sumer was a revolutionary civilization for its advanced social pyramid‚ means of stable food supply‚ and remarkable innovations. The Sumerian social pyramid is very similar to the modern social classes. From bottom to top‚ it goes something very similar to this: Slaves‚ Peasants‚ Farmers‚ Craftsmen‚ Merchants‚ Scribes‚ Soldiers‚ Priests‚ King. Scribes‚ nearly always men‚ had to undergo training‚ and having successfully completed
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shrine room at the ziggurat housed a group of statues representing men and women of various sizes‚ with large eyes and hands encased across their chests. They may represent gods but its more likely that they represent the townspeople of Tell Asmar in Sumer. Landmarks of the Iron Age Iron technology encouraged the rapid rise of large and powerful empires: Equipped with iron weapons. These weapons were mostly use by the Assyrians‚ the Chaldeans‚ and the Persians for conquering vast portions of Mesopotamia
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NOTES Geography * Mesopotamia means the land between the rivers in Greek. (rivers = Tigris and Euphrates) * It is located in western Asia. * It is also known as the world’s earliest urban civilizations. (arose around: 3500 bc) * Mesopotamia‚ known as “the cradle of civilization”‚ was the centre of Sumerian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian‚ and Chaldean civilizations. * The area now forms most of modern Iraq‚ south-eastern Turkey‚ and eastern Syria. * The natural wealth of Mesopotamia
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found. It lay between two rivers; The Euphrates and the Tigris. These rivers flooded inconsistently causing fresh water to flow into their region. Sumer‚ located further southeast in Mesopotamia‚ was a very prospering city. It led to increase food supplies and that caused an increase in human population. Many Semitic (Arabs and Jewish) people migrated to Sumer‚ bringing with them their languages such as: Akkaidian‚ Aramaic‚ Hebrew and Phoenician. One of the first “Sumerian governments were probably assemblies
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Chapter 1 — The First Civilizations The Earliest Humans Essential Question How did humans become food producers rather than food gatherers? * Domestication of animals * There was fertile soil to grow crops * Hunting animals was harder * Agriculture was a failure for a long time I can statements Explain why the development of agriculture was so crucial for the establishment of civilization. * Hunting wasn’t reliable * You may not get enough food for the day by hunting/gathering
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Mesopotamia Cumulative effects of agriculture + wave of technological changes around 4000 B.C.E. = generated civilizations as a new organizational form The process of agricultural economies = civilizations began in the Middle East. The Sumerians Sumer 1st river valley civilizations Major floods occurred Northeastern section along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that lead to the Persian Gulf Rainfall is scant Generated large food surpluses = population growth and village expansion + increased
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DO NOT USE THIS. I JUST DID THIS SO THAT I WOULD HAVE AN ACCOUNT Chapter One Vocabulary for World History AP 1. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys- a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: site of several ancient civilizations 2. Egypt in the Nile River- an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and the area from Cairo S to the Sudan (Upper Egypt). 3. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the
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accordance with their own temper and heritage‚ that only the bare nucleus of the Sumerian original remains recognizable. It is definitely a Babylonian‚ rather than a Sumerian‚ development and achievement. (History Begins at Sumer‚ 270).” This insert from “History Begins at Sumer‚ 270‚ Samuel Noah Kramer” aids in reinforcing the argument that the story is of Babylonian origins‚ which was later
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