26-30 watched world history in 2 hours dident take notes
2-6 What is world history, history of the world define BC,AD,BCE,CE before Christ and anno Domini(Latin for in the year of our lord
Before common era and common era are secular terms, Define civilization, An advanced state of human society in which a high level of culture science industry and government has been reached. The five traits of a civilization advanced cities, writing/record keeping specialized workers, complex institutions advanced technology. What is an empire A country that has control of large areas outside. Large empires yuan dynasty, spanish empire, russian empire, mongol empire, ottoman empire
Civilization. These civilizations arose in 4 separate river valleys around 3500B.C, rivers nile, tigris, euphrates, indus, yellow/yangtze. Location egypt, irag, india, china. Common characteristics of each of these civilizations, war farming. Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers. City state a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state, each city had a large urban centers with rural countryside surrounding it. Each had its own large military that protected their rural lands, fought each other to gain more farmland. Sumerian social order
King believed that god gave them the right to rule
Priests gave up working and lived off the offerings of the people
Skilled craftspeople crafters with specific skills that are in high need
Merchants people who buy and sell goods to the public
Traders travel to far away placed to grade gold silver cooper lumber and precious stone
Farmers
Laborers
Slaves
Sumerian religion
Polythestic the worship of many gods, sumerian ziggurat largest structure in city, dedicated to a patron god of the city, resembled a pyramid and made of brick
Men and woman in sumer
Men held political positions, made laws, educated
Woman took care of the home and children, some wealthy woman got an education
Technical advances of sumerians first civilization to develop, the wheel, vehicles with wheels carts and wagons, potters wheel plow pulled by oxen increased farm production, clock sewers under streets, bronze tools and
weapons bronze age makeup glass jewelry writing math concepts
Sumerian math, system based on the number 60 divided a year into 12 months factor of 60 24 hour day calculated the areas of rectangles and triangles. Invention of writing, cuneiform world's first system of writing, scribe writer epics long poems that tell the stories of heroes. The rise of babylon, located by the euphrates river near modern day baghdad, Iraq, former sumerian city. Hammurabi's code 282 laws dealing with almsot every part of dailey life, trade loans theft marrige injury and murder
Fines were the least harshest punishment included in hammurabis law code, payback was commonly used as a punishment and were often more physical, like an eye for an eye, death being put to death was common and was the harshest common punishment listed in hammurabis code. The nile river 4000 miles long-orlds longest river, the nile river valley provided the early egyptians with rich farmland, surrounding deserts gave them protection. Egyptian goverment, the earliest egyptian rulers were village chiefs, over time a few strong chiefs united their villages to form kingdoms.
9-13 The end of the new kingdom 1550 BCE to 1080 BCE, by 1150 bce, egypt only consisted of the nile river valley, during the 900’s egypt. Egyptian advancements, early egyptians developed geometry, papyrus a plant was used to produce paper The egyptians developed hieroglyphics which were symbols that stood for objects and ideas. The rosetta stone, A stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, found by a french soldier in 1799 included hieroglyphics text in greek. 3000-1900 B.C.E the harappan civilization. Harappan empire name came from one of its major cities harappa, located where present day pakistan is. City organization, there were city walls a large granary and a fortified citadel in each of the two major cities. Ancient china geography, chinese civilization began around the area between the two rivers the yangtze and the huang he. Shang dynasty, took over china in 1600 bce, ruled china for about 700 years, took over 1800 city states. Chinese writing system, more than 2,000 symbols o express words or ideas. Today chinese symbols are still based on the shang dynasty symbols. Religion the shang dynasty was polytheistic, ancestor worship began in this period, as did the sacrifices to the gods. Mandate of heaven.
16-20 first 2 days took test 2000 BCE-300 BCE the story of ancient greece. Mythology the study of myths, myths are stories about supernatural beings which were handed down orally from one generation to another, myths attempt to explain such things as nature,man,gods. The creation of the world first there was chaos
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