HIST-UA 651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Silt, Hyksos, Tigris
2 Sep 2016
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Places/names to know (know where the place is on a map, its importance, the person"s importance, etc): babylon, sumer, sargon of akkad, hammurabi, tigris river, and. Sumerian civilization 3500bce middle east/eastern europe: geography (tigris and euphrates) The two rivers created fertile land for productive agriculture. Priests would do astronomy, math, and overall interpret god"s word. Ziggurats = places of worship and offerings (top of every ziggurat was temple) The two popular beliefs were animism and polytheism (local gods: religion/animism. Animism: the belief spirits inhabit animals and objects; spirits cause things to happen. Polytheism: many local/regional gods; helped unite people of a town. Baylon (2000bce: king hammurabi was from babylon, they had the writing system of cuneiform, after the akkadians. Sargon of akkad (2334 2279 bce: using chariots, he brought sumer to his control. Hammurabi (king of babylon: developed a code of laws to protect property, position of elites, and patriarchy (eye for an eye)
