Early Civilizations in the Middle East. MESOPOTAMIANS Located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers/Fertile Crescent Era known as the Bronze Age Irrigation.

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Early Civilizations in the Middle East

MESOPOTAMIANS Located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers/Fertile Crescent Era known as the Bronze Age Irrigation System 1 st civilization City-state was a theocracy Sumer was first city-state Sumerians developed cuneiforn

PHOENICIANS Important traders Spreading ideas and culture Used sun and stars to navigate Most people located in Lebanon Developed an alphabet

AKKADIANS & BABYLONIANS Akkad conquered Sumer to create the first empire Akkad became Babylon Hammurabi’s Code Developed number system based on 60 second/minute/hour Clock controlled by water

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS Nile longest river in the world Delta formed at the Mediterranean Sea 2 Kingdoms – Upper & Lower Egypt – united under a pharoah Polytheistic- many gods Theocracy government Embalmed the dead = mummy Pharoahs buried in pyramids

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS Largest pyramid-Great Pyramid of Khufu Heiroglyphics Papyrus Royal Officers = scribes Used Rosetta Stone to read heiroglyphics