ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

• ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

  Many historians believe that one of the first civilization arose in Sumer.
• Sumer is located in Mesopotamia.
• Mesopotamia is a region part of Modern Iraq.
• CIVILIZATION

  Complex culture with five characteristics:

  1.   Advanced Cities

  2.   Specialized Workers

  3.   Complex Institutions

  4.   Record Keeping

  5.   Advanced Technology
• FOUR RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

  1. Mesopotamia Civilization (35000-1600 B.C.)

  2. Egyptian Civilization (3000-2000 B.C.)

  3. Indus Valley Civilization (2500-1700 B.C.)

  4. Ancient China Civilization (3950-1000 B.C.)
• What are the four valley civilizations?

  1. Mesopotamia 2. Egyptian 3. Indus Valley 4. Ancient China
• Mesopotamia Civilization (35000-1600 B.C.)
• It is the second civilization Egyptian Civilization (3000-2000 B.C.)
• The fourth civilization is Ancient China Civilization (3950-1000 B.C.)
• 1. Indus Valley Civilization (2500-1700 B.C.)
• Mesopotamia is also known as cradle of civilization.
• Mesopotamia is located between Tigris and Euphrates River, which flows through Iraq.
• Tigris and Euphrates known as The land between rivers
• Why Mesopotamia is a cradle of civilization? What are the things first began here?

  People, History, and Civilization
• The Fertile Crescent was an area that extended from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
• ·  Dikes and canals turned Mesopotamia into “Fertile Crescent”
• Fertile Crescent sustained world’s first farms and cities.
• Build city walls with mud bricks and traded people around them for the products they lacked.
• The region today corresponds to modern Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
• Tigris and Euphrates still flow from the eastern highlands of Turkey into the Persian Gulf.
• What are the five main societies in Ancient Mesopotamia?

  Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea
• 1.   Plow and Wheel

  2.   First written language and records
• First written literature, Great Flood in the poem
• What is the first written laws?

  Ur-Nammu Code (ca. 2050 BC) and Hammurabi Code (ca. 1750 BC)
• What was the first number system measures?

  (distance, area, space, time)
• What do you called a zodiac chart and heavenly bodies affect the destiny of men?

  Astrology
• Metal tools, farms, houses, schools, sailboat, hanging gardens, palaces, and sculpture
• what is the First Temples and First Religion?

  Ziggurat Pyramids and Polytheism
• First Cities and empires (Tyranny- dictatorship) Union of church and states
• Segregation by class, sex, age, wealth (upper class rich males) (poor lower classes women and children)
• If married failed what is likely to be failed?

  Society
• What are the Basic Institutions?

  Family, School, Government, Economics , Religion, Media
• How many PH natives language?

  187
• Appeal to wisdom mean?

  Right
• Appeal to pity means?

  Desperate move
• The cheapest labor?

  Chinese