Set: Ancient Middle East

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Mesopotamia "between the rivers"; the area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which flow from the highlands of modern-day Turkey through Iraq in the Persian Gulf
Sumerians world's first civilization developed in southeastern Mesopotamia in 3300 B.C.; invented earliest known writing, cuneiform; a major trading region where much trade from Europe, Africa, and Asia pasted through; invented first wheeled vehicles
cuneiform in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
Phoenicians "carriers of civilization"; located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform
Hammurabi's Code the king of Babylon, Hammurabi's set of laws for his empire; protected the powerless and established civil and criminal laws
Zoroastrianism founded by Zoroaster; rejects Persian gods and believed in only one god, Ahura Mazda
Persian Empire a huge empire ranging from Asia Minor to India; Darius I unified the empire by creating provinces and giving each province a ruler; encouraged a money economy with coins rather than goods
Egypt located on the Nile; ruled by pharaohs; civilization based on geography

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Creator ckim
Created November 12, 2007
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Tags east, middle, ancient, history
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