1. World History Chapter 2 Summer School - Mr. Fennig
Early Civilizations
World History Chapter 2
Summer School - Mr. Fennig

2. Outline of Chapter Mesopotamia Sumerian Amorite Egypt Canaan Hittites
Phoenicians
Arameans
Hebrews
Near Eastern Empires
Assyrians
Chaldeans
Persians

3. Mesopotamia "land between the rivers" Sumeria (3000 BC)
independent city-states
polytheistic
water, agriculture, sky
Cuneiform
Farming
Architecture: Ziggurats
Sargon
Contributions
Cuneiform, Wheel, 360, Hours/Minutes

4. Mesopotamia Amorites (1900-1600 BC) "Old Babylonian Empire"
 Capital at Babylon
Hammurabi
Epic of Gilgamesh
Accomplishments
Astronomy
Astrology

5. Egypt Location Nile Lower (North) and Upper (South) History
Mizraim -> Memphis
Old Kingdom (Age of Pharaohs) 
pyramids (Khufu)
Middle Kingdom (Age of People)
attempt to appease the people
Joseph
New Kingdom (Age of the Empire)
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Amenhotep II
Rameses II

7. Egypt Culture Social Mobility Women Respected Hieroglyphics, Papyrus
Polytheism

8. Land of Canaan
Hebrews interacted primarily with three people groups - Hittites, Phoenicians, and Arameans. 
Hittites (Fertile Crescent)
Iron weapons
Phoenicians (Lebanon)
Merchants, Alphabet
Tyre
Baal
Arameans (Syrians)
Aramaic

9. Land of Canaan
Hebrews
Abraham of Ur -> Isaac -> Jacob (changed to Israel)
Split into Israel (under Rehoboam) and Judah (under Jeroboam)
722 BC Assyrians destroyed Samaria
586 BC Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem

10. Near Eastern Empires
all of the empires continued the traditions of their predecessors, changing them slightly, and spreading their culture further and further
Assyrians
Brutality and Fear
Battering Ram
Militarism
Nineveh (Sennacherib)

11. Near Eastern Empires Chaldean (around Babylon)
United under Nebuchadnezzar
called the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Diaspora 
Hanging Gardens
Fell under Belshazzar

12. Near Eastern Empires Persian Greece to India to Egypt (at height)
Cyrus (Isaiah 45:13, Ezra 1:2)
Xerxes (Ahasuerus)
Satrapies (governors appointed by King)
Zoroastrianism
Ahura Mazda
Avesta