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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”

Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia = Land between TWO rivers –Tigris –Euphrates

Sumerians This is now Kuwait

Sumerian Religion - Polytheistic Enki Innana Anthropomorphic Gods

Polytheism Poly More than one Many –Polygamy –Polygon Theism God Religious –Christian –Islam –Budhaism

Mesopotamian Trade “The Cuneiform World”

Cuneiform (Writing) Stylus (stick)Stylus (stick) WedgesWedges –Symbols –Sounds –Pictures Scribes=writersScribes=writers Clay tablet (wet)Clay tablet (wet)

Cuneiform: “Wedge-Shaped” Writing

Cuneiform Writing

Deciphering Cuneiform

Sumerian Scribes “Tablet House”

Sumerian Cylinder Seals

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh Epic Tablet: Flood Story (Noah)

Ziggurat at Ur  Temple  “Mountain of the Gods”  Temple  “Mountain of the Gods”

The Royal Standard of Ur

Mesopotamian Harp

Board Game From Ur

Sophisticated Metallurgy Skills at Ur

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

The Babylonian Empires

Hammurabi’s [r B. C. E.] Code

Hammurabi, the Judge “An eye for an eye”

Babylonian Math Base 60— think clocks, triangles

Babylonian Numbers No 0’s