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Notes: The Ancient World-1 st Civilizations:

Notes: The Ancient World-1 st Civilizations: The foundation of civilizations is traced back to the _____ _________ ______________...governments may have developed to direct and plan irrigation and flood control projects The 4 River Valleys: The_____ in Africa The_____ in SW Asia

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Notes: The Ancient World-1 st Civilizations:

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  1. Notes: The Ancient World-1st Civilizations: The foundation of civilizations is traced back to the _____ _________ ______________...governments may have developed to direct and plan irrigation and flood control projects The 4 River Valleys: • The_____ in Africa • The_____ in SW Asia • The_____ in S. Asia • The_____ in E. Asia • Egyptian civilizations were very stable • 30 Egyptian dynasties from 3200 BC to 300 BC • Accurate calendars tracked__________ _________ • Geometry was used to draw field boundaries & construct ______________. • ______________ came from belief in immortality and an afterlife

  2. Tigris-Euphrates / Mesopotamia / the Fertile Crescent • ________-Region of southern Mesopotamia contained city-states • _________- Sumerian temples • ______- form of wedge-shaped writing developed after 3000 BC • 2330 BC Akkadians conquered the Sumerians (ruled for about 150 yrs) • 1792 BC Hammurabi ruled Babylon and conquered upper Tigris-Euphrates Valley • · He is know for the _______ ___ ________________i- one of the earliest known examples of human laws being defined and written down in an orderly way • Power shifted in the 1600s BC to the Hittites >in 900 BC The Assyrians >in 600s BC the Chaldeans, and >the _________ empire in 539 BC, the ______________.

  3. The Phoenicians, Lydians, & Hebrews • The _________ civilization was an enterprising maritime ___________ culture that spread across the Mediterranean between the period of 1550 BC to 300 BC. • The Phoenicians developed the ____________ on which our own alphabet is patterned. • The ___________ of Asia Minor were the first to use ________ ____________ beginning in about 600 BC. • The Semitic speaking_____________ had a great influence on all history. __________, considered an ___________ monotheism, is the Hebrew form of monotheism. The _________ outlines the Hebrew code of laws which set a higher value on _________ _________ than earlier law codes

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  5. Phoenician coin.

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