- writting cunaifurm (1st writing form)
- laws (code of hamurabi)
- divided time inot min and seconds
- opened 1st trade routes
- 4000 years ago died out
- had giant temple complex- Zigarat
- hebru scriptures describe garden of idean in mesopatania
- temperatures at about 120 F
- mesopatamia - the country between two rivers
- had once been the cradle of a civilization
- untle 19th centure didn't know much about the culture
- a tel was a big mound of dirt that could be covering a descovery
Egypt
- King tut was uncovered in the heart of the valley of the kings
- pharo was god on earth - controled flooding of the nile/
- have life force - Kah
- after death you Kah waited until it could go to the after life
- organs removed/body munified
- acording to book of the dead heart is weighed against a feather
- god of death / ocyrus
- nile floods and makes land fertile
- flood makes great top soil
- Herodotus - greek historian (egypt is a gift of the nile)
- made history into a book
- 6671 kilameters
- flows south to north
- the pharo is responsible for the rising and falling of the nile
- if no flood the people were angry at the pharo (some assasinations)
- nile gets larger with each flood
Minoins
- lived on Crete
- took name from king minos
- palace had large librenth with minatore in it
- sacrifices made
- thesius killed minitor
- 3,500 years ago civilizatio colapsed
- conosis larges city in europe
- had roads and running water
- befor Rome
- mt thera erupted and center of the island thera when into the sea (santerini)
- tsunami created and impacted crete
- sulfure gass created by erruption 36 km into airand created extream climate change
- cloud stays in atmosphere/ crops fail
- achiologist said that labrinth under palace might be storage
Micineans
- troagan war against greeks
- menaliasis' wife helen was stolen starting the war
- this event could have taken place
- could have been destroyed by an earth quake
- historian turned illiad inot a map - leads him to turkey/and he finds troy
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