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Ancient Civs.
Mind map: Ancient civilizations
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Ancient Civs.
Mesopotamia
- Between the Tigris; Euphrates Rivers
- First Civilazations
- Sumerians-1st known civ.
- Anthropomorphic gods
- Ziggurat at Ur
- Ziggurat: a religious temple that doubled as civic center
- cuneiform: writing system
- Gilgamesh: oldest written epic; first account of Noah's ark story
- Akkadian Empire
- After Summerians
- First Empire
- Ruled when Sargon conquered Summerians
- Example of priest loosing power to military over time
- Judaism appeared
- Amorites
- After Akkad Empire
- Led by Hammurabi
- Hammurabi was first to have code of law
- Assyrians
- Led by Ashurbannipal
- Chaldeans
- Babylonians
- Led by Nebuchadnezzer
- Religon
- Judaism
- Abraham left Ur and settled in Jerusalem
- Yahweh's covenant with his people
- Tora: 1st 5 books of the bible
- Most sacred Jewish text
- 10 commandments
- 1st: no other gods
- 2nd: no graven images
- 9th: don't steal
- 3rd: don't take gad's name in vain
- 4th: Remember Sabbath
- 5th: Respect Parents
- 6th: don't kill/murder
- 7th: don't lie
- 8th: don't want something others have
- 10th: no adultury
- Jewish slavery: made judaism widespeard
Egypt
- Nile was the lifeblood
- Period of Inundation
- Periods when the Nile flooded
- Period of Inundation
- Narmer
- United Upper (southern) and Lower (nothern) Egypt
- King Tutankhamom (Tut)
- Despised by Egyptians
- Most intact tomb
- Tomb found by Howard-Carter
- Tomb in Valley of Kings
- Valley where new kingdom kings are buried
- Champollion
- Found Rosetta Stone
- Decipher Hieroglyphics
- Found Rosetta Stone
- Isolation-minded government
- Religon
- Pyramids
- Djoser Step pyramid
- First pyramid attemp
- Giza Pyramids
- Oldest Natural wonder
- Kings had to be burried underground in "Valley of Kings" to avoid grave robbers
- Djoser Step pyramid
- 3 main gods
- Osiris: underworld god
- Horus: god representing ruling Pharoph
- Isis:fertility goddes
- Pyramids
- Nile was the lifeblood
Indus-Valley
- Cities
- Harappa
- Farther up the Indus River
- Mohenjo-Daro
- First planned city
- Close to Arabian Sea
- Harappa
- Vedic Age
- Aryan Migration
- Largely pastoral and warriors
- Aryan Migration
- Religon
- The Vedas
- Religious Hindu text
- in sanskrit
- hyms
- poems
- prayers
- magical spells
- list of gods/goddesses
- Social Hierachy
- !st: Brahmins
- 2nd: Kshatriyas
- Based on reincarnation
- 3rd: Vaishyas
- 4th: Shudras
- Pariahs: Untouchables
- not considers part of the social class
- Brahman-supreme god
- 3 forms
- Brahma-creater
- Vishnu-preserver
- Shiva-destroyer
- 3 forms
- Yoga
- Hatha Yoga-physical
- Karma Yoga-good deeds
- Shana Yoga-knowledge
- Bhakti Yoga-devotion to god
- Raja Yoga-meditation
- The Vedas
- Sanskrit is written language
- Cities
Chinese
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- Rough mind map covering Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus-Valley, and China.
- Created by
- Clay Johnson
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