HIST 1001 : Test 1
Document Summary
Ziggurat- temple to the gods near wear the kings live. The two language groups in western languge are semitic and indo european. Akkadians the first people to take over the sumerians. Instead of having rulers for regions they have one king over all the land. Learn how to bake brick to make tiles. Code of hammurabi- it is on clay tablets as well on a stone pillar. On top of the stone is hammurabi is him talking to the god of justice on a throne. Pharaoh"s claimed to be able to control the floods. Center was in lower egypt (in the north) in memphis on the nile. They thought the pharaoh was going on a journey. They put all of his stuff in there as well as food and boats. The pyramids were built using labor from the farmers that couldn"t tend to their farms during the floods. Used papyrus to make a form of paper.
