HIST 1001 Lecture : Ancient Near East Lecture Notes
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Fundamentals of civilization: accurate measurement, writing, government, questioning. The study of history is essentially the study of. Human beings after they learned how to write. Wishes to study human beings before they became. Written records and, as such, deals with human. Beings who can record things in an understandable. Manner: therefore, history begins with people who. By a people known as the sumerians, who lived in. The word sumer comes from the word shumeru, which was what a later people called the akkadians called the. This area is known by its greek name, mesopotamia, which means the land between the rivers, in this case between two rivers known as the tigris and euphrates. Mesopotamia is the geographic name of the place; sumeria is the historical name. What made civilization begin there was the domestication of plants and animals, particularly the domestication of plants. From those places it spread farther, including eastward toward.
