Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 4. Which ancient culture left no literary texts? A) Phoenicians B) Sumerians C) Hebrews D) Babylonians E) Assyrians Points Earned: 0.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): A 5. From which of the following peoples did the Hebrews not struggle for freedom‚ either in Palestine or while in exile from it? A) Babylonians B) Sumerians C) Egyptians D) Greeks E) Romans Correct Answer(s): B 6. Who was the Persian conqueror who in 539 B.C
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Mesopotamia (Cuneiform of Sumerians) around 3000 BCE. Despite the views that the first writing system was invented in Mesopotamia there are other researches that have refuted this claim as it is believed that writing systems were also developed independently in other parts of the world (Egypt and Indus) around the same time as in Sumerian. There are four writing systems that are considered to have developed around the time of 3000 BCE up to 600 BCE: Cuneiform of Sumerian‚ Egyptian hieroglyphs‚ Chinese
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Video Review #1 What’s the best thing about being an archeologist? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2sH3RoQgc This video is about the various things that archeologists do that make their job great. They are able to uncover stories from the past that nobody even knew about until they discovered them. Being prove riht about a site or culture is one of the perks of the job as well. You get to meet people from all over the world who share in your passion. You imagination is a powerful tool when recreating
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something like the city-states of Mesopotamia. The original people living in Mesopotamia were called the Sumerians. Along with the Sumerians‚ there were other people living in Mesopotamia and they were called the Semites. Overtime the Semites would have a huge impact on the Sumerians’ culture‚ government and religious practices‚ but in the beginning they lived peacefully along with the Sumerians and adopted their culture.
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stories contain strikingly similar plots about a god who is angry and wipes out everyone in a flood‚ except a few lucky survivors who escape via some sort of boat. These two other stories are the Sumerian and Greek flood stories‚ and the similarities these stories share are quite shocking. The Sumerian flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ written on stone tablets in cuneiform‚ is one of the oldest writings on earth. The gods in this story get angry because “The uproar of mankind is intolerable
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ca. 1792 – 1750 BC) created a short lived empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire. Babylonia adopted the written Semitic Akkadian language for official use‚ and retained the Sumerian language for religious use‚ which by that time was no longer a spoken language. The Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in later Babylonian culture‚ and the region would remain an important cultural center‚ even under outside rule‚ throughout the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.
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In this paper I will try to explain the puzzle of whether individuals are products of society or society is a product of individuals. I believe that in general‚ and in the beginning‚ the answer to this question‚ is that society is a human product. I will start by presenting early man‚ the hunter and gatherer as an early form of society‚ but lacking critical qualities of a society. Then I will continue to support my theory by analyzing the beginning of known society some three and one half thousands
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Submitted on: April 28‚ 2011 ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Skeptics claim that the flood narrative of Genesis1 is a rewritten version of an original myth‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ from the Enuma Elishproduced by the Sumerians. The flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh is contained on Tablet XI2 of twelve large stone tablets that date to around
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IS202 World History and Civilization Introduction Chapter I. Key Term: 1. Geography: is the study of people‚ their environment and their resources. 2. Latitude: line on a map or globe measure distance north and south of Equator. 3. Longitude: lines measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian‚ which runs through Greenwich‚ England. Or the lines to measure in degree. 4. Prehistory: the history before history. 5. Archaeologist: scientists who find and analyze objects left by
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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 has always attracted people from poorer neighbouring regions‚ and its
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