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Part 1: Sumer and Akkad

 Timeline

 Timeline (Continued)

 Defining Civilization  Urbanization  Social change  Growth in population  Technological and industrial change  Bronze metallurgy  Long-distance trade  Symbolic communication (writing, art)

 Mesopotamian Civilization  Tigris and Euphrates Rivers  North vs. South  Politically fragmented  Sumerian and Semitic languages

  Lugal  King List King List  Great Flood  Gilgamesh Gilgamesh  Sumerian Myth Sumerian Myth  Genesis Genesis Sumerians

  Akkadian influence  Sargon and unification  Naram-Sin and the victory stele Akkadians

  Akkadian King  Legend of Sargon, BCE  Moses Sargon

  Hammurabi (r )  Law code  Sumerian Law Code  Hittite Law Code Law Codes

  Rights  Ishtar  Religious Prostitution Women in Mesopotamia

 Mesopotamian Culture  Writing  Cuneiform  Writing restricted to an educated elite  Mathematics  Sexagesimal system (units of 60)  Astronomy This is a letter written to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal reporting a lunar eclipse.

 Babylonian World Map

 Mesopotamian Culture (cont’d)  Religion  Polytheistic  Nature gods  Pessimistic view of life and afterlife  Slavery Ishtar

  The 'Enuma Anu Enlil' series of tablets is a collection of documents interpreting observations of the stars, planets, weather and natural occurrences like earthquakes. Divining

Standard of Ur

 Chronology: Key Events and People in Mesopotamian History