World History

In the beginning…First Civilizations: Africa and Asia

(3200 B.C. – 500 B.C.)

Ancient Sumer

•Sumer, the oldest civilization of the Middle East

Fertile Crescent

•Sumer

The Sumerians made great advances in mathematics and

astronomy.• So you can blame them for algebra and

Geometry• Used 6 as their numerical base SO…

1. 60 minutes in an hours2. 360 degrees in a circle

Egypt: Gift of the NileEgyptian civilization arose along the

fertile banks of the Nile River in northeastern Africa.

Nile River Map

S E C T I O N 5

The World of the HebrewsThe World of the Hebrews began in Ur of the Chaldeans (Sumer)Abram (Patriarch) heard God tell him to go to a Promised Land

Mesopotamia’s located at a geographical crossroads for trade & Migration

including BabyloniansBabylonians, Assyrians & Persians!

animism

• The belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena

Hammurabi1790 BC

Babylonian King

Conquers most of Mespopotamia

Law Code of Hammurabi

Code of Hammurabi

• Standardized Law = Consistent

• Codified Law = Written•Everyone knew the LAW

If not equal everyone had equal protection

under the law…

even women

Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi was a list of 282 laws brought together and written

on an 8 foot tall stone pillar in 1280 AD for all the people of Babylonia to

see.

What is most famous about Hammurabi?

You probably assume it was one simple law.

“An eye for an eye.”

And although that was a law, and it is famous, Hammurabi’s code was a set of

laws for everyone to follow, with set punishment if not followed. Brilliant

Idea? Right?

#229 If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make

its construction sound, and the house which he

has built collapses and causes the

death of the owner of the house, the builder shall be put to death.

#110 If a "sister of god"

(nun) who is not living in a convent opens a wine shop or enters a wine shop for a drink, they shall burn that

woman.

• 53   If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined.

• 21 If any one break a hole into a house (break in to steal), he shall be put to death before that hole and be buried.

• 195   If a son strike his father, his hands shall be cut off.

• 196   If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. [ An eye for an eye ]

• 197   If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.

• 198   If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina.

• 199   If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.

• 200   If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]