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The Fertile Crescent gave rise to the Sumerian civilization in the Tigris- Euphrates Valley i.Rivers: Tigris & Euphrates

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ii. Sumerian Writing 1. Cuneiform: earliest known form of writing (symbol-based)

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iii.Architecture and Science 1.Ziggurats wedding cake-shaped temples 2.First to develop and use the wheel 3.Math- 60

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iv. City-State: included a town or city and the surrounding land controlled by it. iv. Religion: Believed in a shadowy lower world afterlife

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a. Akkadians 1. Sargon of Akkad- had first empire in Sumeria

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b. Babylonians i. Code of Hammurabi - 1 st major collection of laws

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c. Hittites: Invaders that had iron technology d. Assyrians: Most feared warriors of Sumeria Kings control through a harsh code of justice

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e. Chaldeans Nebuchadnezzar Ruthless king who encouraged Babylonian learning he received from the Assyrians

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e. Persians 1. Cyrus the Great Captured Babylon in 539 BC & freed the Jews from captivity 2. Darius United Persian Empire

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Religion Zoroaster: a Sumerian prophet that taught that evil and righteousness were in constant battle

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Farming More difficult than Egypt because the flooding was unpredictable