Chapter 1 — The First Civilizations The Earliest Humans Essential Question How did humans become food producers rather than food gatherers? * Domestication of animals * There was fertile soil to grow crops * Hunting animals was harder * Agriculture was a failure for a long time I can statements Explain why the development of agriculture was so crucial for the establishment of civilization. * Hunting wasn’t reliable * You may not get enough food for the day by hunting/gathering
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role in the life of Mesopotamians and together with different social‚ economic and even political concepts; they are the influential factors that dictated the architectural expression of that era‚ from the Ubaid period (5000 B.C) until the fall of Babylon (539 B.C). In order to better understand the how and why different architectural approaches were taken during different phases in Mesopotamia‚ this essay will provide a detailed geographical and chronological analysis on both the temple and residential
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Mary Heapy Melanie Duffey CADS 2300 Due: 9/4/2013 Impact of Permanent Settlement on City Design in Mesopotamia Introduction The desire to have a place to call home is deeply rooted in the ancient history of our world. While hunting and gathering proved to be sufficient up until this point‚ life in settlements and cities was‚ and remains to be paramount. Even prior to other worldly connections‚ the region of Mesopotamia developed into several successful villages and cities. While tensions
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Neolithic sites in the ancient Near East: a. b. 2. What might be the meaning of the animals represented on the Lyre sound box (fig. 2.14a)? 3. The land known as Mesopotamia lay between what two rivers? 4. The Ishtar Gate built in Babylon was (fig. 2.30) was created of ______________________ and covered with _________________________. What motifs were used to decorate it? 5. What subjects were most commonly portrayed in Assyrian reliefs? 6. The doorway of the citadel of Sargon
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Hammurabi was the ruler of the Babylonian empire he also created the code of Hammurabi. Ashurbanipal was the Assyrian king; he created a huge library called Nineveh. Nebuchadnezzar II drove the Egyptians out of Syria. He also built the Hanging gardens of Babylon. It is now one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Cyrus the Great was a powerful Persian king. He had a vision of conquering lands around Persia. Some of the inventions in Mesopotamia were the sword and helmet‚ rings‚ cuneiform‚ a stylus‚ a pictograph
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arguably one of the most well-known rulers of Ancient Mesopotamia‚ alongside Ur-Nammu‚ Great King Sargon‚ and Tiglath-Pileser to name a few. Shortly after 1900 B.C.‚ the Amorites – the Semites from the west who weakened the Third Dynasty of Ur‚ took Babylon as their capital. Gradually and carefully‚ they consolidated their position in the north. By the eighteenth century‚ the Old Babylonian dynasty attained full strength under King Hammurabi‚ who had a long and prosperous reign of forty-two years from
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Essay #1: History The history of ancient Babylonia is really long‚ but this essay is a short and to the point summery of the entire history. The history of Babylonia started near the end of the year 2000 BC‚ when invaders were attacking the Sumer kingdom. Sumer was a powerful kingdom in the western part of Asia‚ and it some what occupied what would become Babylonia. After the kingdom of Sumer was destroyed the city-states of Larsa and Isin came into settle on the land once occupied by Sumer. This
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explains how Marduk became the chief of the gods. The Egyptian Book of the Dead was a guide for the dead‚ setting out magic spells and charms to be used to pass judgment in the afterlife. Ancient Nippur was the site of the chief temple to Enlil‚ while Babylon was the location of Marduk’s sanctuary. Thebes and the temple complex of Karnak were home to the worship of Amen- Ra. In the modern world the remains of these early religions can be seen in Egypt’s pyramids‚ tombs for the pharaohs‚ and in Mesopotamia’s
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Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal was king of Assyria (669-631 BCE)‚ and counted as the last great ruler of the country. When his father Esarhaddon died‚ he left Ashurbanipal a kingdom that stretched from northern Egyp to Persia‚ but he laso made his brother king of babylonia. Ashurbanipal ruled his country from Nineveh. Ashurbanipal is remembered as one of the most cultured rulers in the Mesopotamian Region: He was literate in both Sumerian and old Akkadian scripts- uncommon for rulers
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Abraham leaves Ur. Jews find Jerusalem‚ first king Saul. 1000 BC Kong Solomon in Jerusalem. After‚ country split into Israel and Judah. 722 BC Israel destroyed by Assyrians. 586 BC Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem‚ leads Jews to captivity in Babylon. 538 BC Babylonia destroyed by Persians. Cyrus frees the Jews‚ they return to homeland. Old Testament first written. Chapter 6- Tyre and Sidon big traders of the World. Chapter 7- 1200 BC Cretans have built palaces etc. Crete has been destroyed
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