Transcript Civilizations Final PowerPoint

Civilizations
Mr. Wilson
Wren High School
The Code of Hammurabi
• Babylonian law code,
dating back to about 1772
BC.
• The Code consists of 282
laws, with scaled
punishments, adjusting
"an eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth" as
graded depending on
social status, of slave
versus free man
Trade Expansion from local to regional
and transregional
Between Egypt and Nubia
• Gold, ivory, ebony, ostrich
feathers, doam (palm
fruits), and exotic products,
and animals like giraffes and
monkeys.
• These items were then
traded through Egypt to the
rest of the Mediterranean
world
Between Mesopotamia and the
Indus River Valley
• The first long-distance trade
occurred between
Mesopotamia and the Indus
Valley in Pakistan around 3000
BC, historians believe. Traded
luxury goods like: spices,
textiles and precious metals.
Cities that were rich in these
commodities became
financially rich, too, and had a
desire for jewelry, fancy robes
and imported delicacies.
Trade from Mesopotamia to the Indus
River Valley
Nubia to Egypt
Early Civilization Comparison
What are we missing?
Literature
• The “Epic of Gilgamesh”- The Epic of Gilgamesh,
an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the
earliest surviving works of literature.
• Rig Veda- is an ancient Indian sacred collection of
Vedic Sanskrit hymns.
• Book of the Dead- The text consists of a number
of Egyptian magic spells intended to assist a dead
person's journey through the underworld, and
into the afterlife.