TODAYS NOTES:
the earliest cities:
-Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as cuneiform.
more on Mesopotamia:
-a pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddess emerged, with many of the deities representing the natural elements of the world.
-the world's first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian 'Epic of Gilgamesh', which told of a great flood.
-Sumerians first divided the hour into sixty minutes and the minute into sixty seconds; they also organized a calendar based on moon cycles.
-The Zigguart (temples) was a Sumerian temple built on top of a 'mountain' of earth.
a mess o' Messopotamia:
Civilization Mesospotamia:
-wandering nomads drive herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially the South od Sumer in Arabia.
-King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws (Hammurabi's Code)
"a eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
the expansion:
-the expansion of Mesopotamian Civilization
-Indo-European were people from the grasslands of the Russian Steppe who introduced the horse to the Near East.
-The war-like European-tribe known as the Hittites settled in Asia Minor
-The Hittites had a lucrative trade in metals and conquered their neighbors
Test on Wednesday (28. January 2015)
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