AP World History- Mesopotamia Flashcards

14654835709	Mesopotamian Civilization	Formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and Kuwait.	0
14654835710	Mesopotamian Civilizations	Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian	1
14654835711	Mesopotamia	Translated: Country between two rivers.	2
14654835712	Tigris and Euphrates	Rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia.	3
14654835713	Sumeria	First urban civilization in the region dating back to possibly 4000-6000 B.C.E.	4
14654835714	cuneiform	One of the first written scripts around 3000 BCE: wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.	5
14654835715	Epic of Gilgamesh	One of the world's first great works of literature written in cuneiform.	6
14654835716	Polytheism	Sumerian religion worshipped multiple gods—many of which were anthropomorphic—they took human-like form	7
14654835717	Akkadians	A group that emerged in northern Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.E. who spoke a semitic language, and had a great king, Sargon.	8
14654835718	Sargon	Came to power around 2334 B.C.E., and established what might have been the world's first dynastic empire	9
14654835719	Assyria	Named after the city of Asur--when the Akkadian empire collapsed they became the dominant power from the late twenty-first century B.C.E. until the late seventh century B.C.E.	10
14654835720	Hammurabi	Babylonian king perhaps best known for his harsh code of laws, efficient centralized bureaucracy, and defeating foreign invaders.	11
14654835721	Code of Hammurabi	Written on stone stele—slabs—and clay tablets. Consists of 282 laws with scaled punishments depending on social status, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"	12