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The Ancient Middle East

Mesopotamia: "Land Between the Two Rivers"

Indo-European Migrations: 4m-2m BCE The Middle East: “The Crossroads of Three Continents”

The Ancient Fertile Crescent Area The Middle East: “The Cradle of Civilization”

Sumerians

Sumerian Religion - Polytheistic Enki Innana

Cuneiform: “Wedge-Shaped” Writing

Cuneiform Writing

Deciphering Cuneiform

Sumerian Scribes

Gilgamesh Flood story

Ziggurat at Ur Temple “Mountain of the Gods” And the ARCH! Also invented the wheel!

Board Game From Ur

Sophisticated Metallurgy Skills at Ur

CHART TIME! Akkadians Babylonians Hittites Assyrians Chaldeans Persians Phoenicians Lydians Hebrews

Sargon of Akkad: The World’s First Empire [Akkadians]

The Babylonian Empires

Hammurabi’s [r. 1792-1750 B. C. E.] Code

Hammurabi, the Judge

Babylonian Math

Babylonian Numbers