In class today, we reviews for our quiz tomorrow. It is a seventy five point quiz so it is a bigger one. I think it will be easy because when we were going over it I was getting most to all the answers right without looking in my notes. I went through and starred all the key important things we would need to know in order to be prepared.
Key Notes:
~city-state- a city that controls the surrounding area (self-governed)
~dynasty- a series of rulers from a single family
~Cultural diffusion-A process where one culture idea spreads to another
~irrigation- controlling water
~monarchy- kings rule (Hammurabi)
~silt- rich soil (from flooding)
~Earliest prehistoric age is the Paleolithic age (old Stone Age)
~Neolithic age (new stone age) marked by:
-Advanced tool making and beginnings of agriculture at first human part of migratory groups (hunted, fished, gathered plants for food)
~polytheism- belief in multiple gods
~modern day countries in fertile crescent: Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, & Turkey
~Gilgamesh was a powerful Mesopotamian king
~Oldest surviving big story "Epic of Gilgamesh" (about a great flood)
~ziggurat- Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth (used for city hall, religious ceremony, most important place in town)
~King of Hammurabi of Babylon created laws known as Hammurabi's Code of Laws (eye for eye)(tooth for tooth)
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