Mesopotamia Civilization

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Mesopotamia Civilization

• Tools
  • Technology
    • Changes in society brought changes in technology
    • Water—Canals and dikes system
    • Transportations—sleds, carts, sailing ships
      • making agriculture surplus move to distance market.
    • Ceramic vessels, cylinder seals
    • Metal
      • life(tool)
      • war(weapon)
    • Plows
  • Writing
    • Pictograms(3500 B.C)
      • simplified drawings to keep records
        • reed and clay tablet
    • Cuneiform(3000 B.C)
      • the known earliest writing characters
      • By Sumerian
      • From pictogram into true writing system
• Different periods/empires)
  • Sumer period (4000B.C.—2000B.C.)
    • Uruk—esopotamia capital city of Umma
    • Gilamesh—king of Umma
    • Epic of Gilgamesh—the earliest known heroic poem.
    • Uruk—the first true city in the history of Western civilization
  • Akkadia empire (2371B.C-2191B.C)
    • Sargon( ca.2334—2279B.C)
      • First king of Akkad
      • First king to built army
      • First king to unit lands in Mesopotamia
  • Old Babylonia empire (1792B.C-729B.C)
    • Established the earliest slavery country and had advanced casting technology.
    • Hammurabi
      • King of Old Babylonia
      • United Mesopotamia (two rivers region)
    • Code of Hammurabi
      • first law code in the history
  • Hittite empire (1700B.C.—800B.C.)
    • A centralized state in today's Turkey
    • 1600B.C. destroyed the Babylonian state
    • 400B.C.—1200B.C. chief political and cultural force in western Asia
    • 1286B.C destroyed by Egypt of Rames II
  • Assysia empire（935B.C-612B.C)
    • Nineveh was the capital city , 800B.C.E
    • 612B.C, destroyed by New Babylon and Medes
    • Regarded as the first true empire
      • created the military and administrative system
  • New Babylonia empire(626B.C-538B.C)
    • Destroyed in 539B.C
      • marked the end of Mesopotamia’s (between two rivers) independent development
    • Code of Hammurabi
      • the fundamental basis for justice.
    • Hanging Garden
      • one of the seven wonders of the world