What Sumerian city is
Gilgamesh linked to?
Uruk.
Sumerian story about a man
given a perfect body and super
human strength
The earliest cities emerged
when?
Mesopotamia means
First complex society in
southern Mesopotamian
Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash,
Nippur, and Kish were all
associated with
Defeated the Babylonians in
1595 B.C.E.
He created the first empire
in Mesopotamia
Religious pyramid in
Mesopotamian
fourth millennium B.C.
Mesopotamia.
ziggurat.
Epic of
Gilgamesh
Sumer
Sargon of Akkad
Uruk.
“the land between
the rivers.”
Hittites
Mesopotamian empirepowerful army and used
terror against enemy
First civilization to use the wheel
Mesopotamian writing
copper and tin make
In Mesopotamia, prisoners
of war, convicted criminals,
and heavily indebted
individuals were the three
main sources for
Gilgamesh’s friend
They developed Iron
metallurgy
Father heads the family and
makes all decisions
They believed in a monotheistic
religion
Hittites
patriarchal
Hebrews
bronze
Slaves
Enkidu
Assyrians
Sumerians
cuneiform
They created an alphabet with
22 letters
homeland of the IndoEuropean
Cities withOrganized government
Complex religion
Job specialization
Social classes
Arts and architecture
Public works
Writing
Built and orderly society
Code of laws – Civil and
criminal
Built Hanging gardens of
Babylon
Specialization of labor,
military power and wealth
led to
Indo-European migrants that
created a large empire.
Chariots
Lex talionis
Spread of ideas, customs, and
technology from one people to
another
Hittites
law of retaliation
Cultural diffusion
Southern Russia
Phoenicians
Hammurabi
Features of a civilization
Social classes
King Nebuchadnezzar
Holy book of the Hebrew
United the Hebrew tribes into
one nation
Founder of the Hebrews. Took
his people to Canaan
Hebrew word for God
They hunted and
Domesticated horses o pull
carts – advantage in warfare
They developed a 12 month
calendar, 60 minute hour, 60
second minute
Abraham
Sumerians
David
Indo-Europeans
Torah
Yahweh