Writing- Cuneiform | ||
Mesopotamia | ||
Paleolithic | ||
Neolithic | ||
Man made tools out of stone | ||
c. 3,000 bce (Cuneiform) | ||
Mesopotamia Nile River Valley (Egypt) Indus Valley (India) Huang He Valley (China) | ||
Mild Climate Fertile soil Rivers | ||
an arc of fertile land that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf | ||
Polytheistic- belief in many gods | ||
Ziggurats | ||
Cuneiform | ||
clay tablets | ||
282 laws affecting all aspects of life and became the model for other legal systems | ||
Pharaohs | ||
King and a god | ||
Hieroglyphics, First doctors to use splints and bandages, pyramids | ||
Papyrus | ||
sanskrit | ||
the caste system | ||
Vedas | ||
Brahma | ||
their karma (a person's deeds and actions) | ||
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) | ||
Suffering is a part of life | ||
the origins of man's suffering is his desire for things he can't have and his attachment to material objects | ||
Man must overcome desire to get rid of suffering and find peace. | ||
To overcome desire, man had to follow the "Noble Eightfold path" | ||
Right faith, right resolve to resist evil, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right thought, right meditation | ||
Nirvana | ||
Man's soul stops its cycle of rebirth and becomes one with the universe | ||
Concept of zero, used a decimal system, yoga, created the written numbers that we use today |
Ancient Civilizations
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