SUMERIAN CITIES LARGEST CITIES | | REPLACING BRONZE FOR IRON; IT'S STRONGER & ABLE TO BE MADE SHARPER |
ZIGGURAT | | HAD 20,000 PEOPLE IN THEM |
WHY PEOPLE SETTLED ON THE TIGRES & EUPHRATES RIVERS | | THE NORTH STAR |
SUMERIANS INVENTED THIS | | SUMERIAN TEMPLE, PYRAMID SHAPED, MOST HOLY BUILDINGS FOR THEM |
SUMERIANS WERE THE FIRST TO HAVE THESE ON THEIR CARTS | | RAMPS & ARCHES, PLUS USING CLAY & BRICK TO BUILD WITH |
SUMERIANS CREATION OF THIS HELPED THEM BUILD TALLER STRONGER BUILDINGS | | FLOODS MADE THE SOIL GREAT FOR FARMING |
SUMERIAN MATH WAS BUILT ON THIS NUMBER | | WHEELS |
THE FIRST RULER TO UNITE MESOPOTAMIAN CITY-STATES | | 60, WE STILL USE TODAY FOR MINUTES & SECONDS |
THIS NEW CITY-STATE CAME TO POWER AROUND 1800 BC | | BABYLON |
HIS REIGN IS KNOWN AS THE GOLDEN AGE OF BABYLON | | ABRAHAM |
HAMMURABI'S CODE | | THE BIBLE OR TORAH |
THIS MADE MESOPOTAMIA & SARGON'S ARMIES STRONGER THAN OTHERS | | USING LARGER WOODEN SHIPS WITH SAILS TO SAIL GREATER DISTANCES |
HE LED THE HEBREW PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT WHERE THEY'D BEEN SLAVES | | PHOENICIANS |
THE HEBREW'S HOLY BOOK | | WRITING, CUNEIFORM, A 550 LETTER ALPHABET |
PHOENICIANS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE INVENTED THIS | | HAMMURABI |
HEBREWS WERE THE FIRST ANCIENT PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN | | A SIMPLE 22 LETTER ALPHABET REPLACING CUNEIFORM |
PHOENICIANS WERE THE FIRST TO USE THIS FOR NAVIGATING AT SEA | | ONE GOD WHOSE NAME WAS YAWEH |
THE FIRST GREAT SAILORS AND TRADERS | | MOSES |
THE FIRST GREAT HEBREW LEADER, 2340 BC OR SO... | | SARGON |
PHOENICIANS CHANGED THE WAY SHIPS WERE MADE REPLACING ROWERS | | THE FIRST KNOWN SYSTEM OF LAWS |