HIST 1001 Chapter : Term List 1 Ancient Near East
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Mesopotamia persia- the land between the tigris and euphrates river where the civilization of sumer, the first urban society flourished. Tigris-supply water, known for violence and unpredictability, prone for flooding; could jump into banks and change its course from year to year. Euphrates- supply water, known for violence and unpredictability, prone for flooding. Dynasty of ur in what is now iraq, beginning. Sumerians-humans exist merely to provide for their gods. Sargon- the akkadian ruler who consolidated power in mesopotamia. Hammurabi- ruler of babylon, collection of laws that were greatly influential in the. Near east and oldest surviving law code, military lex talionis- Nile-renewed the land every year by flooding, fertile black soil left every summer made their the richest argicultural with which the individual must remain in harmony, and against which each; pharaoh power: rule people justly. Ma"at-the serene order of the universe person"s ka would be weighed after death force of the eighteenth dynasty"s triumph.
