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phoenicans
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1100 bce phoenicans were the most powerful tradors.
POOR natural recources
Purple dye- snails. 60,000= 1lb of dye
Phoenician alphabet
demand for cedar trees.
they traded wine, ivory, slaves, weapons
excellent sailors
founded 300 trading colonies. on almost every mediteranian island. |
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porkchoppony Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:21:32 GMT |
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| ZORASTER |
PHROPHET AND RELIGIOUS REFORMER
-zorasterainism
-life is training future
free will: good vs. evil
earth will disappear.
NOTHING is more shamefull than lying: debt= lying |
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porkchoppony Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:21:32 GMT |
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Chaldeans were from ______.
they defeated assyrians in _____BCE.
they were called new babylonians or _________.
they greatest king was _____. under him the people ccreated ___ and built new buildings. they also expanded.... |
they were from babylon
they defeated them in 612
they were called neobabylonians
nebuchadnezzar 605-562
created astrology and expanded roads |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:02:52 GMT |
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Assyrians had a _____ government. they created a new network of ______.
the king had ______ _____.
they werre only responsible to the god _____. but were still polythesistic.
they created postal srvice and fel in ______BCE due to their dislike |
centralized government
network of roads
the king had complete control
they were responsible to Assur.
they fell in 612. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:02:52 GMT |
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assyrians were ____ . they used _______. they invented the ______.
Made capitol ______ in 650 |
brutal
calvalry
battering ram
nineveh. (this was the hight of the empire |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:58:20 GMT |
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| the hitties rulled from ... |
1600-1200 bce |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:58:20 GMT |
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the migrated from the ____ ____ to mesopotamia (hitties)
they previousally lived in _____.
they developed the ability to ___ ____. this made ____ $$$$. |
black sea
asia minor
smelt iron.
iron was worth 40x silver |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:58:20 GMT |
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| hitties |
took land from hammurabi and the amorites. in 1600 BCE. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:58:20 GMT |
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there was ____ in persian areas. What did they collect?
they let their conqured victims to ____.
they also extended ____. |
justice
they collected fair taxes
they let conqured victims keep customs
they extended roads |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:55:36 GMT |
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| the persians created a city called _____. they connected their cities by ____ roads and had a ___ currency. |
persepolis
royal rodes connected satraps.
common currency |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:55:36 GMT |
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| the persian empire was divided into |
satraps
every govener had 1. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:55:36 GMT |
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| persia had wise rullers. such as |
parius I (522-486) BCE |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:55:36 GMT |
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perisians conqured mesopotamia in _____BCE under which king?
his son king ____ took egypt in ____. |
539 BCE under king cyrus
King cambyses took egype in 525 |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:52:53 GMT |
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connacs were _______ ________.
everyone wore jewlery.
a popular facinating stone was the ___ ____. |
connacs were sheepskin dresses
lapis lazui. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:52:53 GMT |
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| characteristics of UR. |
slept on cielings
unsewered streets
houses not aligned with neighbors |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:52:53 GMT |
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| how many people lived in and around ur |
40,000 |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:52:53 GMT |
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| sumarians built ________ _______ in __________. they still live in these ____ tree filled ____. |
sumarians built reed huts in barroleese. they still live in these palm tree filled oasis' |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:49:48 GMT |
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| sumarians created writing. they had _____ which made the population grow, and _____ which helped with flooding |
wheat, irrigation |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:49:48 GMT |
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| chioyeue |
mudbriock walls on stone foundation in mesopotamia |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:49:48 GMT |
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the gardens of babal
existed on current __________. on the ___________ river.
they invented.... and special _______ pancakes.
who kept up the tradition? |
in current baghdad on tigris river
invented water cooler and
special icon wheat pancakes
the kurds kept up that tradition |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:49:48 GMT |
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sumarians divided _____ into ____ and _____.
they opened - _ -
wrote ....
died after _____________ |
time into min. and sec.
first trade routes
wrote human history
4,000 years of existance |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:45:48 GMT |
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| What happened to babylon after the empire fell? |
it broke into smaller kingdoms
-phoenicians and the jews made important contributions |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:45:48 GMT |
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| how many years after hammurabi's reign did babylon fall? |
200 |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:45:48 GMT |
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hammurabi's code laws differed based on...
it established that _____ had responsibility for society
example... |
gender and social status
governemnt had responsibilty
if something was stolen, the govn't would compensate if it was not recovered |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:45:48 GMT |
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| hammurabi's code had rules for ---- |
everyday issues including 88 laws for marriage, family and property |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:26:12 GMT |
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| hammurabis code consisted of _____ laws. it was established becuase Babylon was .... |
282 laws
babylon was growing so rapidly it needed laws |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:26:12 GMT |
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| Hammurabi |
general who conquered mesopotamia and created one of the worlds first empires. he established hammurabi's code |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:26:12 GMT |
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| what happened in 2000bce? the capitol was then. |
amorites invaded mesopotamia and established babylon as the capitol |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:26:12 GMT |
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| what did summerians create? |
wagon wheel
arch
potters wheel
sundial
12 month calender
metal plow
number system based on 60. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:22:04 GMT |
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| scribes recorded... |
history (records) and myths |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:22:04 GMT |
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| kings were also _____. |
high priests |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:22:04 GMT |
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| sumerians settled in _________. they started a monarchial form of government in _____. |
3500 bce= sumerian settlement
2700BCE= monarchial government |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:22:04 GMT |
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| mesopotamia disadvantages and solutions |
-flooding-irrigation
-defenseless, the size of MA-walls for defense
-limited natural resources |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:19:40 GMT |
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| name one of their many gods. they were polytheistic |
shemash-sun god |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:19:40 GMT |
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| What did they use to build things like temples? What was their temple called? |
no stone. sun dried bricks. the temples were called ziggurats and were at the center of each city state |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:19:40 GMT |
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| did ancient sumerians have papyrus? what did they write on? what was the language called? what did it look like? |
no, they wrote on clay tablets
they wrote with cuniform which was wedge shaped letters in 3100BCE |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:19:40 GMT |
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| ninevah |
tablet that told about sumerian creation |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:16:38 GMT |
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| What is a city state? |
a form of government which included town/city and the surrounding land which it controlled. |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:16:38 GMT |
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| how many city states were there in ancient sumeria? |
12 |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:16:38 GMT |
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| sumarian males |
could go to school and become scribes.
sumarian woman could not |
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porkchoppony Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:16:38 GMT |
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