Notes: The Ancient World-1st Civilizations:

The foundation of civilizations is traced back to the ______________ ______________...governments may have developed to direct and plan irrigation and flood control projectsThe 4 River Valleys:1. The_____ in Africa2. The_____ in SW Asia3. The_____ in S. Asia4. The_____ in E. Asia• Egyptian civilizations were very stable• 30 Egyptian dynasties from 3200 BC to 300 BC• Accurate calendars tracked__________ _________• Geometry was used to draw field boundaries & construct

______________.• ______________ came from belief in immortality and an afterlife

• Tigris-Euphrates / Mesopotamia / the Fertile Crescent• ________- Region of southern Mesopotamia contained city-

states • _________- Sumerian temples• ______- form of wedge-shaped writing developed after 3000

BC

• 2330 BC Akkadians conquered the Sumerians (ruled for about 150 yrs)

• 1792 BC Hammurabi ruled Babylon and conquered upper Tigris-Euphrates Valley

• · He is know for the _______ ___ ________________i- one of the earliest known examples of human laws being defined and written down in an orderly way

• • Power shifted in the 1600s BC to the Hittites >in 900 BC The

Assyrians >in 600s BC the Chaldeans, and >the _________ empire in 539 BC, the ______________.

The Phoenicians, Lydians, & Hebrews

• The _________ civilization was an enterprising maritime ___________ culture that spread across the Mediterranean between the period of 1550 BC to 300 BC.

• The Phoenicians developed the ____________ on which our own alphabet is patterned.

• The ___________ of Asia Minor were the first to use ________ ____________ beginning in about 600 BC.

• The Semitic speaking_____________ had a great influence on all history. __________, considered an ___________ monotheism, is the Hebrew form of monotheism. The _________ outlines the Hebrew code of laws which set a higher value on _________ _________ than earlier law codes

Phoenician vessel

Phoenician coin.