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Polytheism
Built ziggurats, made
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­Remains a
mystery
offerings of food to gods
Craftsment; merchants;
farmers; women take care
of house; slave labor
Ur- trade center
Babylon- laws
Uruk- wealthy city in Sumer
City-states: each place
had its own ruler and laws
*King Hammurabi: harsh
punishments
­Builders (engineers)
. Farmers ­Writers
Dentists
. shepherds
­Traders
­Harappa
. Mohenjo­daro
much is a mystery
* The two cities
had a similar
gov't. style
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Cuneiform
Calendar
Scribes--> records kept
on clay tablets
Domesticate animals;
irrigation canals; levees;
metals for tools
Kings/Gov't. officials, priests,
merchants, artisans
and scribes, farmers,
slaves
Silt made land fertile;
people irrigated the land;
developed the wheel to help
carry heavy products
Code of Laws
Writing System
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­writing system
(maybe older
than cuneiform)
clay / stone tablets
­advanced builders
(engineers)
Brick builders
.dentistry
Middle
­Lots of
Class society
­Gov't, controlled
much of life
silt provided
fertile soil
sewer system
Use of brick
­Mathl Place value
system /weights &
Measures
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Good Morning/Afternoon!!!
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11/19/2015
We are going to watch a video segment about the
concept of ZERO. After, you will see 4 statements
about this video. Three of them are true; ONE is a
LIE!!! Can you detect the lie?
A) The Ancient Indians used words to express numbers.
TRUTH
B) Words replaced symbols to make calculations easier.
LIE!!!!
C) The concept of zero came from a dream. TRUTH
D) Prior to Indians, the Babylonians had used symbols.
TRUTH
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