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(His) Unit 2: P1
The Ancient Near-East; Mesopotamia
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| History | How we interoperate the events of the past |
| P.A.I.D | Precise, Accurate, Illustrate, Detailed |
| Strong Argument | When you prove your point well with P.A.I.D |
| Assertion | When an argument is not compelling and has no reasons to prove there point |
| ANE | Ancient Near-East |
| Mesopotamia | Middle of the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates); mondern day Irac |
| -Meso | Middle |
| -Potamia | The rivers |
| Sumer | (c.5000BC-c.2340BC) first civilization to make City-States (Ur, Eridu, Uruk) was conquered by the Akkadians c.2340BC for access to the Persian Gulf |
| City-States | A city large enough and independent enough to be its own little nation |
| Akkadians | (2334-2083BC) most known kind was Sargon The Great created the worlds first empire conquered by the Babylonians. |
| Why do we have specific dates? | We have specific dates only when its written down which would've been for earthquakes, natural disasters, and plagues. |
| Empire | A group of nations, territories, or peoples ruled by a single authority (one group of people rule another, dosen't have to be big) |
| Dynasty | the families that ruled a given place |
| Babylonians | (c.2000-1595BC) The most famouse king was Hammarabi (1795-1750BC) who created a super-city with massive walls called The city of Babylonian |
| Hammarabi Code | The third oldest rule books that's still extant it has a lot of stuff from The Mosaic Law in it even though it came 150-200yrs. before it |
| Points Against The Mosaic Law Being Written After Hammarabi's Code | 1. Hammarabi's Code dosen't say women have rights while the Mosaic Law dose 2. The phrase "an eye for an eye" was a simple phrased used back then 3. Why would someone travel over 6000 miles to copy the code? |
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | They were pretty burtal and were known for there large empire with iron weponds. They had land from the furtile cresant to Egypt) |
| Terrorism | Using terror to great the advantage against diffrent aponants |
| Tactics The Neo-Assyrian Empire Used? | They invinted impaling, they also used bays and ramps to climb cities walls while also tunnling underneath to burn the supports |
| Siege Warfare | when you surround a city and cut them off from all resources |
| Nineveh | was the capital of the Neo-Assyrians for some part of the year |
| Battle of Carchemish | (605BC) Between the Neo-Assyrians against the Medes and the Neo-Babylonins (they won) The Medes [In the book of Daniel] took the northern while the Neo-babylonians took the southern |
| Neo-Babylonians | (605-539BC) Nebuchanezzar was the most powerful and famouse king of Babylonian. Was famouse for two reasons 1. How the Empire collapsed (the writting on the wall in Daniel) 2. The empire was rich and powerful |
| What did Nebuchanezzar Build? | He built a hanging garden in the centre of his city and established a trading route |
| What Do You Do When You Conqure? | 1. Kill all the people 2. Enslave them 3. Assilmate them 4 Relocate them |
| Pros and Cons to Killing everyone | pros--> can't rebel cons--> dead people don't pay taxes |
| Pros and Cons to Enslaving everyone | pros--> you can get money plus work done cons--> they could run away or rebel |
| Pros and Cons to Assilmate everyone | pros--> the best things to do cons--> very costly and a very long process |
| Pros and Cons to Relocating everyone | pros--> affective and you get taxes, they don't have any natiolism and rebellion cons--> exspensive |
| What did Nebuchanezzar use, out of the four conqureing senerios? | He relocated everyone |
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