Yesterday in class, we continued with the powerpoint and taking more notes. I feel like for this unit, there are so many notes to take and a lot to know for the test. Maybe it's just me but I think so I don't know really, I'm just kind of worried about studying for the test but I think it will be fine as long as we have a day of class where we specifically go over everything we need to know for the test and leave out any extra information. But of course we still keep that in our minds for when we will talk about it again. Anyway, here are the notes I took for Friday's class:
- The earliest cities, Mesopotamia, the population increased dramatically due to new irrigation techniques
- The district, Sumer occupied the land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- Cities and towns were founded 40,000 inhabitants
- Better food storage allowed for diversity in professions
- Kings emerged also family dynasties and the "city-state"
- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing, known as "cuniform"
- A pantheon of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged, with many of the dieties representing the natural elements of the world
- The world's first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" which told of a great flood
- Sumerians made calendar based on moon cycles
- They also divided the hours into 60 min and the minutes into 60 sec
- The Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth
- Wandering nomads drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia
- King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi's code" - laws that included "an eye for an eye" and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes
- Indo-European were people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the Near East
- The war-like Indo-European tribe known as the Hittites settled in Asia Minor
- The Hittites had a lucrative trade in metals and conquered nearly all of their neighbors, even threatening Egypt
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