Ancient Civilizations
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| 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 |