Monday- no school labor day
Tuesday- notes
Phoenicians Economy
- greatest seafaring people
- Dominated trade in the Mediterranean for a thousand years
- Phoenicians is Greek for People of the Sea
- Great sea trading empire
- Famous for
- alphabet
- cedar ships
- purple cloth
- trade
- art
- religion
- Determined their direction by looking at the sun and stars.
Technology Advances
- shipbuilding
- Navigation
- Writing
- See through glass
- Mathematics
- Dyes
Political Advancements
- Kingship
- Alliances- King Israelite
- Social Structure
- Republic government- Tyre
Social
Religion
- Polytheistic
Education
- Educated by elders in the community
Art
- Influences by Egyptian and Mesopotamian art
Entertainment
- Music and Hymns
- Festivals celebrating their Gods
Gender Roles
- Women were subjected to lower ranking jobs than men
Babalon
- Dynasty
- Absolute Monarchy
- Hammurabi's Babylonian Empire 18th Bablon to Babylonia
- Hammurabi's code (282)
- eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
- what you do to someone that is what will happen to you
- Assyrian conquest 12th
- Naboplassar 625 BC (Nebucbadnezzar II)
- 539 BC Persia
- Economy
- Agriculture
- Barter/Trade system
- Currency
- Big Economy= 200,000 people
Social
- Religon
- strong beliefs in many immortal gods
- Each individual would have their very own god to pray to
- Gender roles
- men had more rights over women
- Women had some rights
- Entertainment
- hunted
- boxed and wrestled
- board games
- Art
- some in architecture
- Education
- scribal type learning
- Boys went to school
- Some girls went
Hanging Garden
- Float in the sky
- Was made by king nebuchandnezzar II
- 650 BC
- 8200 gallons 75 feet high
Geography
- Largest city in the world from 1770-1670 and first 200,000 population
Harappans
- 3300-1300 BC
- James Lewis British army deserter posed as an American engineer noticed mounded ruins at a small town in Punjab called Harappa. Since Harappa was the first city founded that how the civilization got named.
- Large village in Pakistan
- Begun around 2900 or 2500 BC
Natural Barriers
- some of the natural barriers around Indus Valley include the following
- Hinda Kush- Great Mountains in Central Asia
- Himalayan
- These are meant to protect against invasion and stop flooding
Mountains or Dessert Like
- both because it is around the Himalyans
- Lots of houses are mud bricks that are in a kiln to dry to make them harder and harder to destroy
Great Bath
- Public bathtub
- Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjo daro in Pakistan
Religion
- Polytheists
- Worshiped goddess of fertility
- Haven't found a temple yet
- Buried objects with the dead
- Many things about beingclean
- Nature worship
Social Class
- Ruling class
- Middles class merchants, craftsmen
- Lowest class, mainly laborers that lived in huts in villages
Entertainments
- Enjoyed dancing
- Large heated pool, public pool with private rooms
Art and Language
- Bronze and beads and ornaments were found
- Very literate peoples, Dravidian language only some as been figured out
- Many pictograms and animal designs
Gender Roles and Technological Advances
- Women were key to survival of the harappans represented fertility
- Duties for women were to bare children and housekeeper
- Men were priests, warriors and tribal leaders and inheirit land
- Seals were used for currency
- Created beads from bone and other material
- Created weights for trade and tax
Political
- Priest ran everything
- They had three laws
- Defined the classes
- Kept order
- Religon is a huge roll
Samsara
- Cycle of birth, death and rebirth
- influenced by one's action
- Want to escape to achieve "ultimate bliss"
Wars
- No real evidence
- Art didn't represent war
- Peaceful civilization
Lost Power
- 3300-1300 BC
- Main Reason. River Drying
Economy
- Urban trading
- Trade with India Afghanistan and Persia for gold, silver, copper and turquoise
- Rich people used instruments studded with jewels
- Ate a lot of wheat rice and vegetables
- Raised cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and camels
Sumerians
Geography
- southwest of Asia which is part of Mesopatmia
Political
- Individual Complex City States
- First "Burdens"
- First Scribes
- Kings
- City states
- Laws
- The Code of -Ur-Nammu
- Not the father
- Sargon the Great/Sumer
- 3000 to 2215 BC
- Great Leaders
- Jusher, Kish
- Enmerkar, Uruk
- Mesh-Ane-Pada, Ur
- Enhengal, Legash
- Loosing Power
- Sargon the Great
- 2334- 2279 BC
- Unison of Sumer
- Soil Salinity
- Social
- Religon
- Polythesis, believed in several gods and goddesses, Inanna, Queen of heaven
- Schools- Priests-Tough-Boys
- Girls would be home-schooled unless rich
- Learned reinforced by beating - sore, not crippling
- Art
- Ornate and Complex- marble
- Temples and Palaces- intricate and Elaborate
- Entertainments
- Festivals, drums, lyres, flutes, harps
- top, jumps, ropes
- boxing wrestling
- board games- Backgammon
- Gender Roles
- Gender Equality
- women were highly respected
- Men and women- same
- Priest, rulers, kings- both
- Singer, weaver- women
- Inventions
- time
- wheel
- circles
- Geometry
- Children's toy
- Writing
- Irrigation
- Dentistry
- Medical advancements
- Urbanization
- Sailboats
- Calendar
Wednesday- notes
Thursday- notes presented
Friday-
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