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S--subject O--Occasion A--Audience
P--Purpose S--Speaker tone--Tone
SOAPStone =-- analysis in reading--critical thinking--bias in a resource |
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-Formed city-states and developed the first civiliation in the Ferile Crescent
-Had cuneiform (writing made by pressing a stylus into clay tablets)
-Had ziggurats(temples looked like wedding cake only square)
-Traded w/Southwest Asia for raw materials such as wood, stone, and metal b/c materials were not available in Mesopotamia.
-Never became unified (remaing a land of city-states) |
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-Hammurabi=king that conquered Mesopotamia (1793-1750 BCE)
-Code of laws for the people
-Protects women
-Punishments often depended on the social class of the victim |
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-founder of a religion in Persia
that probably influenced Judaism and Chritianity |
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| -Biblical figure who led his poeple out of slavery in Egypt and presented them with the Ten Commandments that Yahweh had revealed to him |
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-has:
-----an intellectual tradition, including a written language
-----an economic system that makes available basic goods and services
-----a moral code
-----a form of political organization
-(A complex culture with 3 characteristics--suplus of food, division of labor, and some form of government.) |
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| Why were rivers important to the growth of civilizations? |
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-They encourage both the growth of agriculture and urban areas
-encouraged trade
-allowed growth in civilization through population because of the game rivers attract. |
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| Egyptians are similar/different to/from Babylonians in what ways? |
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--similar----
*Women could pursue careers and own property
*Farming= important |
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| Egyptian farmers vs. Mesopotamian farmers view on the rivers and who was more fortunate? |
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-Egyptians were more fortunate b/c the Nile flooded at regular intervals-- the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers did not.
-The Nile flowed in a direction that was an advantage to the Egyptian traders and merchants.
-The Nile was navigatable
-The Nile provided natural irrigation(flooded regularly)
-The Tigris and Euphrates needed constant supervision and had unpredictable and untimely droughts and floods.
-The Tigris and Euphrates created a need for a lot of organization to protect the civilization. |
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-Conquered by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Perisans, and Syrians.
-founded by Abraham (lived in Sumer)
*Abraham left Sumer and led people to North Canaan to excape drought/famine.
*his 12 sons each have a tribe (12 tribes of Israel)
-In Egypt--
*first at peace--then Egyptians lost favor of Jews and made them slaves.
*Moses then led Jews out of Egypt |
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-Mountains surrounding valley= natural protection
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