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Mesopotamia
Akkadia or Babylon?
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What is geography?
The study of land, its features, and plant and animal inhabitants.
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How was climate advantageous to European spread of power?
Similar latitude lines to the fertile crescent. They were able to apply/perfect farming practices passed down since the time of the Ice Age ending, when people began to farm and domesticate animals.
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Who were Sumerians?
The first civilization of people to live in Mesopotamia (fertile crescent). 7,000 years ago.
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Kindogm arose around 1800 B.C.
Babylon
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Draw a timeline showing the beginning of Sumeria.
7,000 years ago
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What is Cargo?
Material goods
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How were crops advantageous to European spread of power?
Wheat and barley are high in protein and as cereal crops can be stored over long periods of time. These crops allow for more people to be fed.
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What is a Ziggurat?
Sumerian temples, where people worshipped gods.
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Kindom arouse around 2340 B.C.
Akkadia
200
Draw a timeline showing the beginning of Akkadia.
2340 B.C.
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How is "cargo" related to power?
Material goods are indicators of wealth. Wealth indicates power.
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How were animals advantageous to European spread of power?
14 animals have been domesticated in the history of the world. Almost all of these animals originated in the fertile crescent (similar latitude to Europe). Humans use animals for farming technology, milk, food, and clothing.
300
What is cuneiform?
Sumerians invented writing, their system of writing is called cuneiform.
300
Used Sumerian cuneiform to make written records.
Akkadian
300
Draw a timeline showing the beginning of Babylon.
1800 B.C.
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Explain domestication of plants and animals.
The process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human control. Plants and animals are used for human benefit.
400
How did guns and steel develop into advantages for European spread of power?
More people being fed and farming technology led to people exploring metal technology in the fertile crescent. This knowledge (resulting from geography) was passed on and perfected by Europeans who utilized steel and gun powder as powerful weapons of conquest.
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Where are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? Why are they important?
Located in Mesopotamia, where the sumerians settled. Mesopotamia means- "the land between two rivers."
400
Leader created first system of laws.
Babylon
400
Why is writing considered the most important invention?
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Why do lines of latitude matter to the question, "Why did the world become unequal?"
Same latitude lines mean the same climate, vegetation, and daylight hours for farmers. They can apply their learned skills over the generations to new areas of fertile land.
500
How did germs develop as an advantage for European spread of power?
Most of our modern diseases come from animals. Europeans raised animals and grew up drinking their milk and around their germs. This, combined with natural selection helped them become immune to diseases that were brought to different countries and wiped out populations of native people.
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Who was Hammurabi, why was he important?
Babylonian King, he created the first system of laws.
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Army used bronze weapons.
Akkadia
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Why were the Tigirs and Euphrates rivers so important to the people of Mesopotamia?
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