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 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">southwest Asia
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">modern day Iraq
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Between persian gulf and Mediterranian Sea
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">Tigris River and Euphrates River
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">Curved shape
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">fertile cresent
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">good soil
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">flat swampy land
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">rich soil = silt
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">desert climate
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">mesopotamia means "land between the rivers"
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">traded grain and cloth
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">recieved stone, wood, barely and sorghom
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">through trade ideas were exchanged
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">4500 bc (people began to farm)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">3300 bc (sumer)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">unpredictable flooding
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">limited natural barriers
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">not a lot of building materials
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">need weater for crops and servival
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">built irrigation ditches
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">built city walls
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">constant war between city states
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">hard to defend = no natural barriers
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">spread culture
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">men picked a leader during times of war
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">city state, independent self governing city including it's surrounding farm land
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">empires = independent countries/city-states brought under 1 ruler (sargon created the first)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">babylonian = avoided mesopotamia
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">dynasty = series of rulers from one family
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">polythesim = believed in many gods
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">gods controlled nature
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">what happens to you after death?
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">go to the land of no return (gross yucky place)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">gave offerings and sacrifices to the gods.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">arches
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">ramps
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">colomns
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">pyramids
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">ziggurats (closest to the gods)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">top: temple/church
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">middle: government
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">bottom: urian
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">around the "bazaar" = market place
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">exchanged ideas about religion, politics and economics
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">social center of mesopotamia
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">epic of Gilgemesh
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">gives us information on how they might have lived
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">story is similar to Noah's Ark legend (flood)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">top layer; kings, landholders and priests
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">next; wealthy merchants
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">next; ordinary people (people who worked in the fields or in work shops)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">lowest level; slaves (debt/war)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> women could be merchants, farmers or aritsans
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">women could own property
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">women could be priests
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">some upperclass learned to read, write & become scribes
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">more rights than women in many ancient societies
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> inventions; wheel, plow, bronze & the sail
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">arithmetic & geometry
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">base 60 (60 sec. = 1 min.) (60 min. = 1 hour)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">architecture; arches, ramps, pyrimids, & ziggurats
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">writting cuneiform (on clay table)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> Sargon (conquered sumer - adapted & spread some culture)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">Hummurabis leader of Babylonian empire (known for code of law)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">controlled by priests at first
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">during war men chose a tough fighter (commanders) got permanent control
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">Hummurabis code of law