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| created many things including empires, social classes, specialzaed labor and communication. not alot of rainfall |
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| was the first conquerer of mesopotamia. he conquered land and built huge armies. his state fell b/c of rebellion |
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was a conquerer dominated mesopotamia untial about 1600 BCE
created set of laws called code of hammurabi included harsh punishments, "eye for eye" |
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| northern mesopotamia, took land in sw asia, created set of rules, armies, and large libraries fell b/c of unrest and asslat. |
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| ruled from 600-550 BCE put up thick walls surrounding city, palaces, temples, very wealthy city fell b/c lost control of affairs |
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| Mesopotamia Bronze Metallurgy |
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| 4000 BCE from copper and tin, improved military equipment, agricultural knives, plows |
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| Mesopotamia Iron Metallurgy |
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| 1000 BCE used iron, replaced bronze b/c bronze was too expensive |
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| 3500 BCE first used wheels, used for carts, wagons and long distance travels,, |
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| 3500 BCE built first shipss to trade overseas |
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| Mesopotamia social classes |
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| kings and nobles were first elected then it became herdertiy , gods were the top, statues built after them |
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| mesopotamia temple communties |
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| presits and presitesses ruled these communites, talked to gods, offerings, income from land and workshops, |
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| main sources- prisoners of war, convicted priosners, and indebt individuals worked as laborers |
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| the divison of kingdom irasel, conquest by arryisans, detruction of judaism after babylonaian empire, reutrn of jews |
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| propersurus b/c of sea trade and networks, no agriculture |
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| flooded predictly, created fertile land for good agricutlure |
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| had to prepare soil, many more woman rulers, did not mumfie dead |
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| conquerer which unifed egypt |
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| conquered egypt, captial Napata, claimed pharoah title. warred w/ assyrians |
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spoke a language of niger-congo family, mostly on banks of rivers, came from now nigeria, culitavted yams and palm oils
placed pressure of on forest dwellers by moving inland
iron helped exapand agricutlure land |
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