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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.
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
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
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.
assyrians were ____ . they used _______. they invented the ______.
Made capitol ______ in 650
brutal
calvalry
battering ram
nineveh. (this was the hight of the empire
the hitties rulled from ...
1600-1200 bce
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
hitties
took land from hammurabi and the amorites. in 1600 BCE.
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
the persians created a city called _____. they connected their cities by ____ roads and had a ___ currency.
persepolis
royal rodes connected satraps.
common currency
the persian empire was divided into
satraps
every govener had 1.
persia had wise rullers. such as
parius I (522-486) BCE
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
connacs were _______ ________.
everyone wore jewlery.
a popular facinating stone was the ___ ____.
connacs were sheepskin dresses
lapis lazui.
characteristics of UR.
slept on cielings
unsewered streets
houses not aligned with neighbors
how many people lived in and around ur
40,000
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'
sumarians created writing. they had _____ which made the population grow, and _____ which helped with flooding
wheat, irrigation
chioyeue
mudbriock walls on stone foundation in mesopotamia
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
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
What happened to babylon after the empire fell?
it broke into smaller kingdoms
-phoenicians and the jews made important contributions
how many years after hammurabi's reign did babylon fall?
200
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
hammurabi's code had rules for ----
everyday issues including 88 laws for marriage, family and property
hammurabis code consisted of _____ laws. it was established becuase Babylon was ....
282 laws
babylon was growing so rapidly it needed laws
Hammurabi
general who conquered mesopotamia and created one of the worlds first empires. he established hammurabi's code
what happened in 2000bce? the capitol was then.
amorites invaded mesopotamia and established babylon as the capitol
what did summerians create?
wagon wheel
arch
potters wheel
sundial
12 month calender
metal plow
number system based on 60.
scribes recorded...
history (records) and myths
kings were also _____.
high priests
sumerians settled in _________. they started a monarchial form of government in _____.
3500 bce= sumerian settlement
2700BCE= monarchial government
mesopotamia disadvantages and solutions
-flooding-irrigation
-defenseless, the size of MA-walls for defense
-limited natural resources
name one of their many gods. they were polytheistic
shemash-sun god
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
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
ninevah
tablet that told about sumerian creation
What is a city state?
a form of government which included town/city and the surrounding land which it controlled.
how many city states were there in ancient sumeria?
12
sumarian males
could go to school and become scribes.
sumarian woman could not
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