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Title: Beginnings of Civilization: Mesopotamia


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Beginnings of Civilization Mesopotamia
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Civilization
  • What makes up a civilization?
  • Do we have a civilization?

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Mesopotamia
  • The Land between Two Rivers
  • Irrigation began around 6000 BCE
  • First cities emerged by 4000 BCE

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Mesopotamia
  • Sumerians
  • First political units in Mesopotamia
  • Semitic People
  • Built first cities in Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia
  • Beginnings of Empires
  • Interaction among Mesopotamian city-states
  • Sargon of Akkad (2370-2315 BCE)

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Sargon of Akkad
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Mesopotamia
  • Babylonian Empire
  • Founded by Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE)
  • Code of Hammurabi

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Code of Hammurabi
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Mesopotamia
  • Assyrian Empire (1300-612 BCE)

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Mesopotamia
  • New Babylonian or Chaldean Empire

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Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia
  • Accomplishments

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Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia
  • Writing
  • Earliest writing 3100 BCE
  • Purposes
  • Epic of Gilgamesh

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Mesopotamia
  • Culture
  • Patriarchal society
  • Stratified

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Mesopotamia
  • Hebrews
  • Moses
  • Kingdom of Israel
  • Judaism

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Ancient Israel
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Mesopotamia
  • Phoenicians
  • Semitic People
  • Trade
  • Alphabet

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Origins of the Alphabet
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Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia
  • Arrival of the Indo-Europeans
  • Origins
  • Migrations
  • Impact on language

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Indo-European Migrations
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