AP World HIstory: Ancient times
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- kassites
- overthrew babylon
- Sumer
- cuneiform, trade w/ wheel, calender, math based on 60, polytheistic, city-states, ziggurats, overthrown in 1700 BCE
- Neolithic Revolution
- permanent. survival skills, ownership, specialized labor, animal labor, boats and carts, metallurgy. followed by the Bronze Age.
- Babylon
- overthrew Akkad. king hammurabi's code. fell to the kassites.
- Hunter-Gatherers
- moved to follow food and climate.
- Hittites
- used iron, had a super military
- Assyrians
- adopted military stuff from Hitties. Big meanies. conquered the fertile crescent. capital at Nineveh. conquererd by Medes and Chaldeans.
- Akkad
- created first law code in cuneiform. overthrew sumer.
- Chaldeans
- overthrew assyrians. rebuilt Babylon. fell to the Persians
- Persian Empire
- built roads: Great Roayl Roads (1600m from Perian Gulf to the Aegean Sea)
- Hebrews
- Judaism. est Isreal in Palestine. got punked n conquered but maintained identity.
- Phoenicians
- had naval city-states along the Medditereanean. Invented an alphabet w/ 22 letters. Greeks adopted it.
- Pastorals
- domesticated animals, little farming, male dominated.
- Mesopotamia
- between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. part of the fertile crescent. unpredictable floods
- Nomads
- no language, fire, or stone tools. just wanted shelter and food. no farming or other skills.
- Lydians
- invented currency in trade rather than the barter system. spread on trade routes