Mesopotamian Civilization

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Mesopotamian Civilization
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Akkadians (2300 B.C.E.)

• Sargon builds first empire
• Destroyed after death

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Babylon

• 1790 B.C.E. Hammurabi creates Mesopotamia
  Empire
• Hammurabis Code 300 laws on a stone pillar
• First to codify
• Civil Law private matters
• Males had full power and responsibility
• Criminal Law offenses against others
• Eye for and eye
• Improved irrigation, army, repaired temples

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Hittites 1400 B.C.E

• Learn ironworking and use to become dominant
• Everyone else learns after the fall of the
  Hittites

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Assyrians

• Use iron
• Warrior culture
• First to have rules for rulers

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Babylonian Revival

• 625 Nebuchadnezzar established an empire
• Rebuilt the Babylonian city
• May have build the hanging gardens
• Wonder of the World

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Persian Empire

• Largest ever
• 539 Cyrus conquers Babylon
• Follow a policy of tolerance

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Persian Empire - Darius

• Set up a bureaucracy
• Province and governor system
• Build roads to increase communication and unity
• Set up weights and measurements
• Use of coins, barter economy cont.

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Persian Empire - Religion

• Zoroaster
• Monotheism
• Good vs. Evil
• Judgement Day

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Vocabulary

• Barter economy exchanging economy
• Money economy use of coins

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Religious Comparison

• Zoroaster, Christianity, Islam

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Phoenicians

• Sailors and traders
• Made glass and purple dye
• Set up colonies all over Meditereanean
• Set up first alphabet
• 22 symbols
• Greeks add vowel