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- Sciencelatin wordScientia "knowledge"
- MESOPOTAMIA3300-75O BC
- Between two riversMesopotamia is a greek word that meanssignifies its location within the Tigris-Euphrates river system.
- IranIraqSyriaKuwaitTurkeyPresent day of Mesopotamia
- SumerianBabylonianAssyrian3 Civilizations of Mesopotamia
- IraqPresent day Sumerian Civilization is
- "the black headed people"Sumerians called themselves
- Building walled city statesSumerians known for
- CuneiformEarliest writing system around 3000 BC
- CuneiformWedge shaped scripts into clay tablets.Needed for long distance communication with merchants and other civilizations
- Sumerian Number Systemdeveloped by Sumerians that used the main base 60 and the auxiliary base 10
- Sailboatsbuilt by Sumerians that allowed them to travel by sea to trade goods with other neighboring civilizations.made of planks of wood and sails made of cloth
- wheelInvented by Sumerians for pottery in 3500 BCLater used for transportation in charitots in 3200 BC
- irrigationdeveloped by Sumerians
- High Levees or Flood Bankscollect floodwaters coming from the Tigris and Euphrates
- Plowused by sumerians for digging and breaking hard soil to make planting easy
- Sumeriansknown for being the first Astronomersobserved the phases of the moon and movements of planet and stars
- Lunar Calendardeveloped by the Sumerians by referring to the phases of the moon. Which becomes the basis for 12 lunar months in a year
- Babylonserved as the center of Mesopotamian Civilization for 2 millenia
- Babylonderived from bav-il or bav-ilim meaning "gates of the Gods"
- IraqModern day Babylon
- Babylonian CivilizationAround the time of Hammurabi in 2000 BC - 500 BC
- BabylonMentioned first in Genesis 10 mentioning the genealogy of Noah's three sons.
- Nimrodbecame a great warrior built a kingdom that included the city of Babylon (Genesis 10:8-10)son of cush who was the son of ham who was the son of Noah
- Tower of Babela structure that Babylonians built "with its tops in the heaven"
- Robert KoldewayGerman archaeologist who directed an excavation in Babylon in 1899 that provided a glimpse of the ancient city.
- Temple of Etemenankiunearthed by Archaeologistsbelieved to have inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel and Nebuchadnezzar's palaces
- Hanging Gardens of Babylonbasement with fourteen large rooms with stone arch ceilings disovered by Koldeway's teambelieved that the Gardens were king NEBUCHADNEZZAR II's gift to this homesick wife AMYTISHad large terraces with many trees and flowering plants.had own irrigation system linked to the Euphrates River to water the trees and plants.
- Lunar Calendardevised by Babylons similar to that by Sumerians, dividing one year to 12 months and each month divided into an alternate of 29 and 30 days
- Sundials and water clocksinvented by the Babylonians to determine time
- Africaexcel in various fields such as agriculture, metallurgy, engineering, textile production and medicine.do not separate science from spirituality, religion, culture and everyday life
- Ancient Egyptian CivilizationOne of Africas most famous civilizations, born along the Nile River
- Nile Riverprovided rich soil for AgricultureFlows from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea
- EgyptKnown as Kemet meaning "Black Land", because of the rich dark soil along the river
- Canal for irrigationOne of the first scientific innovations of the Ancient Egypt Civilization
- Shadoofan irrigation tool composed of pole and a bucket used to life water
- EgyptiansInvented breath mints, myrrh, cinnamon pellets and discovering honey.
- Great Sphinx of Giza20-meter high statue made of limestone depicting a sphinx with a lions body and a human head
- Pyramidsserved as tombs for kings and queens of Egypt
- mummificationPracticed by Egyptians to preserve the body to be recognized by his or her spirit.They believed that after death the soul lives on as an immortal entity