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Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia existed around ______ BCE was home to many different civilization 3000
Spanned land between the ________ and ________ Rivers west to the Mediterranean Sea Tigris and Euphraptes
One of the first civilizations to emerge was _______ Sumer
Growth Population and ______ trade
A system of writing and ______ _______ record keeping
They used a system of writing called _______, which was a system of writing with wedge shaped symbols cuneiform
Used tablets made of hardened ________ clay
The epic of __________ was the first known piece of literature, 2700 BCE Gilgamesh
The story of Gilgamesh is a bout a king who _____ with his gods and people interacts
Advanced _________ that allowed them to survive technology
Sumerians invented the _______ , plow, and sailboat wheel
Used ________ for weapons/tools bronze
Functioning __________ government
Mesopotamians modified their environment to live in the challenging ________ Fertile Crescent
________ ditches were built to control flooding and get water to crops Irrigation
City walls were built prevent _______ raids
Created ________ trade network to get stone, wood etc extensive
They practiced _________, or a belief in many gods polytheism
They worshiped in temples called __________ ziggurats
Government was a monarchy established by strong ________ warriors
Sumerian cities (Ur, Uruk, Akkad) were toppled by ______, a group of nomadic raiders around ______ BCE Amorites, 2000
The Amorites and their raids left the popular city of _____ in ruins Ur
The Shift to the ______ ____ happened around 1000 BCE and allowed groups like the Hittites to dominate Asia Minor iron age
The Amorites established _______ as their capital city around 2000 BCE Babylon
___________ was Babylon's most powerful and influential king Hammurabi
Babylon society was very complex, so a legal system called ______ _______ was created to settle every dispute Hammurabi's Code
Hammurabi's code consisted of ___________ 282 specific laws
The laws established that government had a responsibility for what happened in _________ society
__________ were one of the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean Sea around 1100 BCE Phoenicians
Around 900 BCE, Phoenicians developed a 22 symbol ________ (eventually used by Greeks, Romans and us today) alphabet
________ were one of the smallest groups that lived in the ancient Fertile Crescent Jews... Judaism was the first monotheistic religion
Jews lived in ancient ______ and traded regularly with Phonecians Israel
Jews were the first group to practice a ________ religion monotheistic
_______ is the worship of only one God Monotheism
Ideas based on a legal code received from Moses to God called the _______` ten commandments
Iron is _____ than bronze (will destroy a bronze sword) harder
Iron is ______ to obtain easier
____________ Empire conquered most of Mesopotamia around 700 BCE due to the adoption of ______ weapons Assyrians, iron
The Assyrians were the most disciplined and effective army to date; ruled out of _______ fear
The Persian empire was very _____ government established around 550 BCE by the Persian King _____ tolerant, Cyrus
The ______ _______ was able to grow because they ruled opposite the way the Assyrians Persian Empire
The ________ conquered all of the Fertile Crescent and most of Asia Minor Persians, Asia Minor
Persians left local customs _____ when a city was conquered no looting, , no destruction of temples or buildings alone
King Cyrus was eventually replaced by _____ around 522 BCE Darius
King Darius ruled with _______ power absolute
Under Darius' rule, the people were connected and ____ united
The ___ _____ connected the land Royal Road
Standard coinage (everyone used the same money) allowed all Persians to conduct _________ business
Persians launched a war against the ______ around 490 BCE Greeks
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