Transcript notes 1st civilization

Historians
Study and write about what
people did long ago
Ice Age
• Most of the world was covered in ice.
People roamed looking for food.
Paleolithic
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25 million years ago
Hunters and Gathers
Nomads
Adapted to environment
Made fire
Neolithic
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8,000 years ago
Made pottery
Made tools out of wood
Domesticated animals
Specialized
Built mud houses and places to worship
Had extra goods to trade
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
• Rich soil was ideal for growing and for
setting up settlements
• Modern Day Countries
• Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria
Sumerians
• Believed in many gods & that gods
protected them
• Used Irrigation to water crops
• Built Ziggurat (temple) to worship
• Social Classes
• Cuneiform (writing on clay tablets)
Sumerian Contributions
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#1 Writing
Literature
Wagon wheel
Plow
Sail boat
Mapped stars
12 month calendar
Babylon
• 2340 B.C. King Sargon of Akkadians
“Sargon the Great”
– First Empire
• 1800 B.C. Hammurabi
Extremely Strict
Hammurabi Code 282 laws
Babylon
• Largest
• Richest
• Prettiest
King Nebuchadnezzar
• Built Hanging Gardens for his wife from
Iran
• Used water from Euphrates River and it
was an incredible irrigation system
Babylon
• Ishtar Gate was the main gate going
into Babylon
• In the center of the city was the Ziggurat
(temple)
Babylon
• 605 B.C. King Nebuchadnezzar ruled
his people called Chandleans
• The Persians captured Babylon and the
empire fell in 536 B.C.