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Empires of the Fertile Crescent

Empires of the Fertile Crescent . * The movement of people across the Fertile Crescent resulted in the change of ideas. Sumerian Civilization. The Fertile Crescent gave rise to the Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley

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Empires of the Fertile Crescent

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  1. Empires of the Fertile Crescent

  2. * The movement of people across the Fertile Crescent resulted in the change of ideas.

  3. Sumerian Civilization • The Fertile Crescent gave rise to the Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley • Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates

  4. Sumerian Civilization • Sumerian Writing • Cuneiform: earliest known form of writing (symbol-based)

  5. Sumerian Civilization • Architecture and Science • Ziggurats – wedding cake-shaped temples • First to develop and use the wheel • Math- 60

  6. Sumerian Civilization • City-State: included a town or city and the surrounding land controlled by it. • Religion: • Believed in a shadowy lower world afterlife

  7. Empires of the Fertile Crescent • Akkadians • Sargon of Akkad- had first empire in Sumeria

  8. Empires of the Fertile Crescent • Babylonians i. Code of Hammurabi - 1st major collection of laws

  9. Empires of the Fertile Crescent • Hittites: Invaders that had iron technology • Assyrians: Most feared warriors of Sumeria • Kings control through a harsh code of justice

  10. Empires of the Fertile Crescent • Chaldeans • Nebuchadnezzar • Ruthless king who encouraged Babylonian learning he received from the Assyrians

  11. Empires of the Fertile Crescent • Persians • Cyrus the Great • Captured Babylon in 539 BC & freed the Jews from captivity • Darius • United Persian Empire

  12. Culture • Religion • Zoroaster: a Sumerian prophet that taught that evil and righteousness were in constant battle

  13. Culture • Farming • More difficult than Egypt because the flooding was unpredictable

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