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7223252753SumerFirst City in Mesopotamia (had mud walls)0
7223254595City-StateLeaders live in the city and surrounding areas payed taxes to them.1
7223291267PolytheismBelief in more than one god2
7223292396Sargon of AkkadCaptured and Defeated Sumer (Worlds First Empire)3
7223300618HammurabiRuler of Babylon (Babylon)(Hammurabi's Code)4
7223303932Hammurabi's Code Of LawsHarsh law biased towards the poor and slaves (Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Go Blind)5
7223332532AssyriansCapital was Nineveh. Most Powerful Empire the World Has Ever Known. USED IRON WEAPONS AND INTRODUCED FIRST CAVALRY.6
7223344871MetallurgyCOPPER + TIN = BRONZE (Weapons, Plows, Tools)7
7223348428Social ClassesKing-Nobility-Priests/Religious Leaders-Peasant-Slaves (Typically Prisoners of War, Criminals, and Debtors)8
7223358910NOT INDIAPRIESTS ARE HIGHEST IN INDIA9
7223360156PATRIARCHYLiterally means "rule of the father"10
7223376736WritingFirst appeared at Sumer11
7223377378CuneiformFirst Writing (Wedge Shaped)12
7223378555JudaismFirst Monotheistic Religion13
7223379092AbrahamFounder of all 3 Big Monotheistic Religions14
7223380712Jews Migrated to EgyptEgyptian Later Enslave The Jews15
7223381929Phoenician Alphabet600 symbols(Cuneiform had 22)16
7223385779The Indo-European MigrationsWar Like Pastoralists from the Black Sea Steppe Domesticated The Horse (Relied on Horses for transportation) Also spread Indo-European Languages.17
7223390461HittitesMigrated to Anatolia (Adopted Cuneiform) Technological Innovations: Refined Iron18
7223400301River NilePredictable Flooding19
7223400724EgyptLower third of the Nile River20
7223404358NubiaMiddle Third Of The Of The Nile River21
7223404947AgricultureEasier in Egypt than Nubia22
7223405661Menes1st Pharaoh of Egypt (God King) (United Upper And Lower Egypt)23
7223407072God KingAbsolute Ruler-Owned The Land24
7223414077Old KingdomPyramids Of Giza Built (Fell Because of Drought)25
7223414832Interaction With NubiaDiplomacy26
7223415927Middle KingdomMentuhotep (United Egypt and Restored The Cult Of Egypt)27
7223421333New KingdomEgyptian Empire (Peak of Egypt's Power)28
7223423136Thutmose The ThirdCreated Egypt's Largest Empire29
7223424907Ramsesses The SecondBuilt Ramessuem, House Of Life (His Descendants Lost Power and Kingdom Collapsed)30
7223431920NubiaEgypt was Driven Out31
7223437215Kingdom Of KushResources like Gold, Ivory, Incense, and Iron Ore (Government - Theocracy) (Patriarchy)32
7223442015HatshepshutUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH33
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