HY 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: First Babylonian Dynasty, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Phoenician Alphabet
9 May 2017
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Wedged shaped writing: sumer uruk 2500 bc. First city that we have evidence of. Between 2 rivers in the mesopotamia area. Really good at science and math: created the 6-based number system, polytheism. 3 most important gods: sun, water, sky. Try to appease the god"s so they can eat: epic of gilgamesh. King of uruk on epic, heroic adventure: sargon and akkadian empire. Sargon conquered sumer and overtook many mesopotamian cities: code of hammurabi. Stele surviving copy of law displayed at the louvre. Hammurabi is in power and anyone who steps out of line gets punished: egyptian civilization. Discovered in 1799: nile is hugely important in africa. Necessary for agriculture: ma"at means harmony. The pharaoh job was to ensure ma"at: hittites. 1595 bce conquered babylon which was ruled by hammurabi: egypt: new kingdom. Important because it reunified upper and lower egypt. Location was important because it was right on the nile.
