Early Humans/ Mesopotamia
Religion of Mesopotamia
Mesopotamians believed in many gods, each god had power over natural forces or human activity. Each city-state in Mesopotamia built a temple to worship their gods called a Ziggurat.
Fertile Cresent
Name given to crescent-shaped area of fertile land shaped as a boomerang. early civilization first began about 8000 B.C in a the land between the rivers, Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform
The earliest known form of writing, which was used by the Sumerians. The name derives from the wedge shaped marks made with a stylus into soft clay. Used from the 3000s BCE to the 100s BCE.
Civilization
The requirements for a ____________ is that there is a system of government, class divisions, food supply, social structure,culture, technology, written language, and religion.
Neolithic vs. Paleolithic Eras
___________: Old Stone Age; tools and weapons made only of stone; nomads; discovered fire; developed spoken language. _________: New Stone Age; settled into communities; started farming; producing goods; trade; invented many tools.
Babylonia
a city built in 1800 B.C by the king, Hammurabi, and his group
Empire
a group of many different lands under one ruler
Sumer
a region in southern Mesopotamia formed in 3000 B.C.
Ziggurat
a temple used to honor its cheif god
Achievements of Mesopotamia
created irrigation systems, writing (cuneiform), wagon wheel, plow, developed mathematical ideas, sailboats.
Trade
exchanging one item for another
Mesopotamia
first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture
Hammurabi
he created the first collection of laws. His laws covered crims, farming, marriage, family, and buisness activities. He also created the Babylonian Empire and was the king.
Sargon
king of the Akkadians, conquered all of Mesopotamia, and created the first Empire- it lasted over 200 years.
"Epic of Gilgamesh"
oldest known story, a long poem about a hero named Gilgamesh.
Nomads
people who do not live in permanant homes
Historians
people who study and write about the human past
Archaeologists
people who study evidence of humans. They find and study artifacts that are buried in the ground.
Anthropologists
people who study human society, and how humans developed.
Chaldeans
rebels of the Assyrians. They made important landmarks of Babylon. Also famous for astronomy, and rebeling against the Assyrians to be the new Empire with the Medes in 627 B.C.
Scribes
record keepers that used cuneiform
Neolithic
settled into communities; started farming; producing goods; trade; invented many tools, new stone age
Agricultural Revolution
the creation of farming during the Mesolithic and Neolithic age.
Akkadians
the first Empire was by these people and their king, Sargon. These people are from Northern Mesopotamia.
Tigris River
the river on the east side of Mesopotamia.
Euphrates River
the river on the west side of Mesopotamia.
Assyrians
these people were from near the Tigris River, and they wanted power over Mesopotamia. These people also were apart of an Empire.
Domestication
to tame animals for human use
Paleolithic
tools and weapons only made of stone; nomads; discovered fire, developed spoken language, old stone age
Irrigation
walls, waterways, and ditches to control water
