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- What important inventions came from mesopotamia
- Wheel, plow, writing, law codes, irrigation, days of the week, 60 minutes, 60 seconds
- Plow
- Was created by the Sumerians in 6000 B.C.
- Lucy
- The first human, the first human who left remains of her bones. She lived around 3.5 million years ago.
- Chaldeans
- The new Babylonians, their king was king Nebuchadnezzar.
- wheel
- 3500 B.C.
- Ashurbanipal
- The Assyrian king.He collected many writings and many of them were found.
- Paleolithic Age
- The old stone age 2.5 million - 8000 B.C. was known for the use of stone tools
- 7 countries of Central America
- Belize,Costa Rica,El Salvador,Guatamala,Hondouras,Nicuragua,Panama
- exile
- Forced removal of one's homeland; banned for life
- government
- A system for creating order and providing leadership. Laws and rules and maintaining order in an effort to promote the economy.
- hunter-gatherers
- A person who gathers food and hunts animals and moves when food gets scarce
- What is the world's largest desert
- antarctica
- 4 types of homonids
- Austrolopithecine,Homo Habilis,Homo Erectus,Homo Sapiens
- tribute
- A payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection
- Technology
- the use of one's mind to create what is neaded.
- Sumerian writing
- cuniform
- Greatest basketball team
- Duke
- domesticate
- To raise or tend an animal or plant to be the use to humans
- Mesopotamia
- The land between two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- social class
- A group of people with the same parents jobs for example a warrior or farmer
- Who were the Sumer?
- They are the first civilization,which rose around 3300 B.C..They created bronze,the week,and writing(cuniform).The Sargon took over after.
- Assyrians
- They are the next group to take over the Fertile Crescent after the Sargon.Their king was king Ashurbanipal.They were defeated by the Medes and the Chaldeans.
- Ashurbanipal
- An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 cuniform tablets were now found form him. Made a huge library in Nineveh
- Examples of traits
- Advanced cities;Kish,Nippur,Ur.Specialized workers;preist,king,artisan.merchants, educators, investors Complex institutions;the temple,army,schools.Record keeping;writing cunieform, pictograph.Advanced technology;irrigation,bronze tools,cuniform,days of week.wheel and plow
- Neanderthals
- (Homo Neanderthalensis) were a extinct species or subspecies ( Homo Sapiens) that lived in the middle Paleolithic Age
- six island nations
- cuba, haita, dom. rep, jamaica, bahamas, trinidad and tobago.
- 6 big ideas
- Government,Geography,Culture,Beleif Sytems, Science and Technology,Economics
- slash and burn
- Cutting down vegetation then burning it to create fine soil to grow crops
- Neolithic Age
- The new stone age lasted from 8000 to 3000 B.C. and is was the begining of weaving and pottery
- Migration
- To move from one place to another
- Surplus
- An extra of something.
- Code of law
- A set of written rules for people to obey
- justice
- Fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law
- Royal Road
- A road built for the empire which king Darius built and was 1,775 miles long.
- Sumer
- An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C. The first empire that ruled in Mesopotamia and is credited with inventing writing.
- Farming started
- 8000 B.C.E. to 5000 B.C.E.
- ziggurat
- An ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in steplike levels and was used to observe the stars.It was like a city center
- satraps
- the governor of a province in the ancient Persian Empire. Tax collectors
- Sargon
- The first empire,aka the Akkadian empire.Hammurabi was their king.
- how did Darius unite an empire?
- He built the Royal Road. He could transport his armies and collect taxes. he always expanded his empire with conquests.
- province
- A subdivision of an empire or country
- Hammurabi
- The ruler of the Babylonian empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C. and created the first legal code of laws.
- king
- The highest ranking leader of a group
- 5 traits of civilization
- Advanced Technology,Advanced Cities,Record Keeping,Complex Institutions,Specialized workers
- Fertile Crescent
- An area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranian Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
- religeon
- The worship of god,gods, or spirits
- Anatolia
- The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor
- Why are there 20 provinces
- The land was to big so king Darius had to brake the land up to be organized
- Mesolithic Age
- The middle stone age, lasted from 10,000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. when we startedto control fire and develope language.
- silt
- fine,fertile soil deposited by a river.
- city-state
- A city and it's nearby farmlands -- A political area that works together for a common goal
- What type of rule did Cyrus have?
- toleration
- Irrigation
- To dig ditches to water your crops.
- growth of trade
- Surpluses lead to the growth of trade because they had extra and they needed something else so they would trade
- What makes a Government?
- King/Queen,Education,Warriors, People to rule,someone to enforce rules,legal laws,scribes,record keeping
- Hammurabi's purpose of his code
- He made laws so there is justice.
- What is the largest river in Egypt?
- Nile
- South America
- Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Columbia,Ecuador,French Guiana,Guyana,Paraguay,Peru,Surinam,Uruguay,Venezuela
- Persian Empire
- extended from India to Greece and help introduce the ideas of organization and importance of toleration and roads
- Why was Cyrus better than Darius?
- Darius was consumed with conquest and not focusing on keeping everyone happy by practicing tolerance
- civilization
- A human society with advanced level of development in social and political organization and in the arts and sciences
- drought
- A period of little rainfall in which it makes it difficult to grow crops
- Floodplain
- Flat land bordering water or lake
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Built by king Nebuchadnezzar, a huge jungle tower.It is one of the seven wonders of the world.
- Nebuchadnezzar
- A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem,and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- empire
- A group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme leader
- 5 themes of geography
- Location,Place,Region,Movement,Human-Enviromental Interaction
- geography
- the study of earth and its people
- Complex Village
- A lot of people,homes,public buildings,religious center,education, and trade
- polytheism
- the belief in more than one God