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- The Fertile Crescent gave rise to the Sumerian civilization in
the Tigris- Euphrates Valley i.Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates
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- ii. Sumerian Writing 1. Cuneiform: earliest known form of
writing (symbol-based)
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- iii.Architecture and Science 1.Ziggurats wedding cake-shaped
temples 2.First to develop and use the wheel 3.Math- 60
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- iv. City-State: included a town or city and the surrounding
land controlled by it. iv. Religion: Believed in a shadowy lower
world afterlife
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- a. Akkadians 1. Sargon of Akkad- had first empire in
Sumeria
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- b. Babylonians i. Code of Hammurabi - 1 st major collection of
laws
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- c. Hittites: Invaders that had iron technology d. Assyrians:
Most feared warriors of Sumeria Kings control through a harsh code
of justice
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- e. Chaldeans Nebuchadnezzar Ruthless king who encouraged
Babylonian learning he received from the Assyrians
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- e. Persians 1. Cyrus the Great Captured Babylon in 539 BC &
freed the Jews from captivity 2. Darius United Persian Empire
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- Religion Zoroaster: a Sumerian prophet that taught that evil
and righteousness were in constant battle
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- Farming More difficult than Egypt because the flooding was
unpredictable