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World History

World History. Beginnings: Classical Antiquity. Mesopotamia “The Cradle of Civilization”. Sumer Agriculture Wheel Cuneiform Earliest writing Epic of Gilgamesh Ur Akkad Sargon World’s first military empire. The Great Ziggurat of Ur, 2200 BC.

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World History

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  1. World History

  2. Beginnings: Classical Antiquity

  3. Mesopotamia“The Cradle of Civilization” • Sumer • Agriculture • Wheel • Cuneiform • Earliest writing • Epic of Gilgamesh • Ur • Akkad • Sargon • World’s first military empire

  4. The Great Ziggurat of Ur, 2200 BC

  5. “When heaven above was not yet named, nor earth below pronounced by name, Apsu, the first one, their begetter and maker Tiamat, who bore them all, had mixed their waters together, but had not formed pastures, nor discovered reed-beds. When yet no gods were manifest, nor names pronounced, nor destinies decreed, then gods were born within them.”

  6. Mesopotamia • Babylon • Hammurabi • Code of Hammurabi • Assyria • Destruction and rebuilding of Babylon • Ashurbanipal • Library of Nineveh • Nebuchadnezzar • Ishtar Gate • Persia • Cyrus the Great

  7. Egypt • Old Kingdom • pyramids • Middle Kingdom • New Kingdom • Ramses the Great • Pharoahs • Nile Floods • Megiddo • Alexander the Great

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