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Sumerians
- Society
  - Always in a state of war
    - Farm Land
    - Water supplies
- Religion
  - Judeo- Christian- Islamic
  - Polythemism - Gods
    - Enki - God of water
    - Enlil - God of wind and agriculture
    - Enu - Sky god
- Geography
  - Middle East
    - Iran
    - Iraq
    - Syria
  - Located in a fertile crescent
  - Flooding was good
- Economy
  - Agriculture based
    - Barley
    - Wheat
    - Lettuce
  - Farms
    - Cows
    - Sheep
    - Goats
    - Pigs
  - Trade
    - Streams
  - Shekel
    - Money
- Advances
  - Cuneifrorm
  - Sharp tools to write on clay tablets
  - Pottery Wheel
  - The Plow and Sewing machine
  - Math system based on 60
  - Mud brick houses
- Politics
  - Original creators of Politics
  - Used to organize construction, labor, and regulate trade
  - Made people work together
  - Citizens were expected to know the laws and punishments
  - Democracy and Monarchy
  - 8 city-state
  - King was decided by hereditary
  - Monarchy ruled over most of the land
  - No empire, poser shifted
  - They still competed for land
  - Court system
    - 2 houses
      - Elders
      - free soldiers
    - Decided Punishments
    - Poor was protected by the rich
Shang Dynasty
- Where?
  - North East China
  - Mostly in the Yellow River Valley
  - Natural border ocean and mountains
- King Tang of Shang
  - Jie of Xia overthrown
    - tortoise shell dynasty
    - Drought
    - 9 foot tall, white, whiskered, pointed head, six-jointed arms
  - Xia or early Shang
- Battle of Muye
  - The Final Battle
  - Facing the Zhou
  - Di Xin
  - 50,000 vs 53,000
  - Better trained Zhou
  - Di Xin death
- Ag based Culture
- Bronze age
- Writing Using oracle bones
- Kites
- Cards games
Babylonian
- Geography
  - Mountains
  - Deserts
  - River
  - Clay
  - Between to Tigress and Euphrates
- Rise of Babylon
  - Hammurabi took power
  - More Powerful
  - Conquering Mesopotamia
- Economics
  - Silver main money
  - King changed prices
- Social Hierarchy
  - Depended on family name
  - Upper Class
    - Merchant, Scribes, Military
    - Grants and benefits
    - Considered precious in Hammurabi's Code
  - Middle Class
    - Farmers
    - Artists
  - Lower Class
    - Taken well care of
    - Could but their freedom
    - Sold for 20 shekels of silver (not a lot)
  - Family Life
    - Arranged Marriages
    - Men could could only divorce
      - No children=2nd wife
- Social
  - twenty main gods
  - Pyramids called Ziggurats

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