1. Part 1: Sumer and Akkad

2.  Timeline

3.  Timeline (Continued)

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

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

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

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

9.   Akkadian King  Legend of Sargon, 2334-2279 BCE  Moses Sargon

10.   Hammurabi (r. 1792-1750)  Law code  Sumerian Law Code  Hittite Law Code Law Codes

11.   Rights  Ishtar  Religious Prostitution Women in Mesopotamia

12.  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.

13.  Babylonian World Map

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

15.   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

16. Standard of Ur

17.  Chronology: Key Events and People in Mesopotamian History