History 2B Test 1

Ensi

• Cuneiform
• Written in mud that would harden

• Ziggurats
• Religious structures built reaching towards the sky and the Gods

• Lex Taliones
• The law of the Talon
• Shows inequality before the law and the disparity between the upper and lower classes

Hammurabis Law Code

Enuma Elish - The Creation Story

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Apples Grow Sour as Knowledge Also Changes People

• Akkadians
• Guti
• Sumerian Revival
• Amorites / Babylonians
• Kassites
• Assyrians
• Chaldeans
• Persians

• Enlil - Chief God (Male)
• Ishtar - Fertility Goddess (Female)

Sheol -afterlife

It was denigrated not celebrated

Mesopotamian neighbors located in Asia Minor

Capital Hattusas

New Weaponry - Smelted Iron

• Time of the wondering people
• Hittites
• Causes- Geological upheaval - Earthquakes?
• Climactic Disturbances - Flooding?

• Maritime economy with trade of
• Cedar wood
• Glass
• Olive Oil

• Colonial Empire
• Spread of the Alphabet

• Mesopotamian Origin of Abraham
• 1900 BC born during the Sumerian rvival

Father of all Nations - Issac, Jacob, and the 12 Tribes of Israel all from Ur.

• ruled 970-930 Most loved of the two
• He followed closer to the religious values

• Ruler of Israel after Father David
• Gained Great political strength - married 700 royal wives (gaining political ties) had 300 concubines - not following religious values
• Created the Temple of Solomon

• Judah in the South 10 tribes
• Israel in the North 2 tribes

Fall to the Assyrians under Sargon II 722 BC

• Judah overrun by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar II 586 BC
•       Destroy Temple of Solomon

Will return to Homeland under the Persians and rebuild Temple of Solomon

• Greek Conquest of Jerusalem
•         Alexander the Great 332 BC

• Roman Hegemony and Diaspora
•  Conquest of Jerusalem 63 AD
• Jewish Revolt causes the Romans to destroy the 2nd Temple of Solemon
• Forced exile or death for Jews

• Monotheism - belief in one God
• Fatherhood of God
• Sin and Moral Agency
• Idea of a Messiah - political savior and messiah movements
• Jewish Scriptures and wisdom literature - Proverbs

• 3100-2181 BC
• Upper and Lower Egypt

• Longest river in the world flows south to north
• Represents everything and life to the Egyptians

Under Narmer founds the 1st dynasty and divides Egypt into provinces

Egypt is divided into provinces and ruled by provincial governors called Nomarchs

• Giza
• Cheops
• Kheferen
• Mycerians

• Polytheistic and Mythopoetic
• Believe in many gods and stories

Divine Kingship - pharaoh runs church and state as one