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Sumerians, first to form civilizations.
1. Advanced cities
2. Specialized workers
3. Complex institutions
4. Record keeping
5. Advanced technology (ziggurats)
-Metallurgy- one of the first jobs
-Medicine was included as an advancement
-Tyrian purple fabric dye was made with shells mucus (purple = royalty)
Labor intensive ^^
- music: man expresses himself
- monarchy/king or queen: passed through blood
-tyranny biggest guns theory
-oligarchy: family (of countries) with some economic power.
-aristocracy: ruled by a few. Aristocrats
-democracy: ruled by the people
CITY-STATES ARE BORN
These city-states functioned much as an independent country does today.
From these city-states, the priests and people granted the military rulers full-time powers to rule over them.
-Dynasty: rules for a long time then is removed. Ex. Chinese dynasties
"Follow the money" IMPORTANT
-cultural diffusion: the idea that ideas are being traded through different regions. ex. The spread of Islam
-about 2350 BCE, Sargon came. Conqueror
Created the worlds first empire and conqueror
-Mesopotamia is the crossroads of civilization and (when discovered) oil.
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
Hammurabi made Hammurabi's code (obviously)
He recognized that a single uniform code would help to unify the diverse cultures.
WEST ASIA
high infant mortality rate
High death rate poor sanitation
Famine
Domestic policy:
Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Lydians, =major empires
Economic production:
Econ = agriculture
Social structure:
Women were property and could be sold. So could kids
Religion:
Polytheism
Humans serve Gods
Temples/ ziggurats
Afterlife
Divinity status for the monarchs
Gods ranged by regions
Education:
Oral tradition
Schools for government workers (scribes)
-ART was centered around religious and rulers
-majority lived in huts made of mud bricks
EGYPT
3100ish BCE
-lower part of the Nile.... [continues]

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