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