civitas- mesopotamia
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- Fertile Crescent
- area including Mesopotamia has Mediteranean climate, Iraq, Syraia, Leb, Israel
- Nile River
- river in Egypt- flows S->N, winds blow other way, Egyptian civilization around Nile
- Mesopotamia
- civilization 1st starts between Tigris and Euphretes rivers
- Theocracy
- civil. run by religion, theo= god/ religion
- Ziggurat
- big step pyramidsin Mesopotamia
- Babylon
- ancient city or empire in Iraq
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Mesopotamian legend about Utnapishtim- escapes flood by building Arc
- Osiris
- Egyptian god, chopped up -thrown in river, then put back 2gether, god of the dead
- Hierglyphics
- Egyptian writing- symbols/ pictures
- Hittites
- people lived Anatolia (now Turkey) in 2000 BC, occupied Babylon, spoke Akkadian, specialty war technology-> chariot
- Persians
- empire lasted 200 yrs in Iran thru Turkey
- Phoenicians
- came up w/ 1st alphabet, made dyes, from leb.
- Exodus
- book in Torah/ Bible, told Moses led Jews away from Egypt, parted Red Sea, got 10 camandments
- Solomon
- king of Isreal, built temple for god
- The Temple
- bit not ornate, for god built by Solomon
- Monotheism
- the belief in only one God
- Tigris river
- river goes thru Iraq , on side of Mesopotamia
- Yellow River
- or Huang He river,northern china, before Mesopotamia farming settlements ther
- Ur
- ancient city in Iraq & Msopotamia, abraham from Ur
- city state
- organization of civilization by city and its surroundings, Ur believed 1st in Sumur
- Sargon
- ruler of Akkad, conquered Sumur
- Code of Hammurabi
- law babylonian empire, engraved in stone, unify diverse groups
- Cataracts
- shallow waterfalls in Nile river
- Isis
- Egyptian godess, put Osiris back together, ideal mother/wife
- Sumur
- 1st place civilization, in mesopotamia
- Hammurabi
- made hammurabi law
- Akkad
- city state N of sumer leader sargon conquered sumur 2350BC 1st empire
- cuneiform
- 1st writing by sumarians 3000BC wedge shaped
- pharoah
- king of egypt had pyramids built in their honor
- book of the dead
- a collection ofhyms, prayers, spells