Review Notes 3/22

Sumeria

• Sumerians had first form of writing


• Code of Hammurabi is the first modified code


• Zygerat is a temple


• Described place where the Garden of Edan was in Mesopotamia ("Country between 2 rivers")


• The rivers create an oasis


• Tel- tells you that there is something to dig for

Egypt

• Cared a lot about death


• Put a lot of money into making death good


• The Pharaoh was God on earth- controlled necessary flood of the Nile


• Believed in the Ka


• After you die, your Ka hung around a while to see if it survived to afterlife


• Organs taken out except the heartand the body was mummified


• The Nile floods and creates an Iluvial plane (plane fed by freshwater) and creates good farmland


• When it floods, it tears apart the land, so it brings sediments and freshwater

Minoans

• Had to sacrafice people to Minotaur until Thesus killed it


• Volcano (Thera) blew up and creates a large cloud that makes the crops stop growing


• Crete goes through a steady decline