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- Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...a]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totality as well as the surrounding lowlan...
5: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
6: ...ssyria|Assyrians]] and the [[Persian Empire]]. Peoples who threatened or invaded these lands include t...
30: ** [[Nippur]]
52: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites== - Cartography (10500 bytes)
9: ...turies BCE]]) of Babylonian history, was found at Nippur [http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC...
19: ...representing the curved surface of the earth on a plane. [[Eratosthenes]], [[Anaximander]], and [[Hipp...
21: ...not produce world maps because their cosmology supplied no dogma describing distant lands outside thei...
23: ...er-world.jpg|thumb|left|World map by [[Johannes Kepler]].]]
25: ...of globalism that was started with the [[Age of Exploration]] would continue during the [[Renaissance]... - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...t least the [[4th millennium BC]]. Sumerian was replaced by [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] as a spoken...
20: ...rsity of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian [[Nippur]] in 1888.
40: .... Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called dir...
47: Sumerian is a [[split ergativity|split ergative]] language. In an ergative language th...
48: Example: ''lugal-e e2 mu-du3'' "the king built the house... - Civilization (29205 bytes)
5: ... this sense, civilization is an exclusive term, applied to some human groups and not others.
7: ...society, whether complex and city-dwelling, or simple and tribal. This definition is often perceived a...
11: ... or crude behavior. In this sense, civilization implies sophistication and refinement.
15: ...on is a complex society, as distinguished from simpler societies. Everyone lives in a society and a c...
17: ...rrigation]]. This enables farmers to produce a surplus of food that will not be needed for their own s... - History of Sumer (5370 bytes)
6: ...uered [[Elam]] and built the temple of Enlil in [[Nippur]]. His successor, Agga, is said to have fought w...
14: ...yx, that remind one of [[Egypt]]ian work and onyx plates. These were "booty" dedicated to the goddess ...
17: ...k (ruled by Enshakushanna, of the King List), Ur, Nippur, [[Akshak]], and [[Larsa]]. He also annexed the k...
21: ...quered were often in revolt. During his reign, temples and palaces were repaired or erected at Lagash ...
24: ...o attacked Lagash unsuccessfully. Ur-Lumma was replaced by a priest-king, Illi, who also attacked Lag... - Sumer (14409 bytes)
1: {{Template:Ancient Mesopotamia}}
5: ...to no known language family, as compared, for example, to [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] which belongs...
10: ...ed various [[city-state]]s, each centered on a temple dedicated to the patron [[god]] of the city and ...
12: ...umer)|Kish]], [[Lagash]], [[Uruk]], [[Ur]], and [[Nippur]]. As these cities developed, they sought to asse...
26: ...eavily on [[irrigation]]. The irrigation was accomplished by the use of [[shaduf]]s, [[canal]]s, [[cha... - Civilizations (30128 bytes)
8: ... this sense, civilization is an exclusive term, applied to some human groups and not others.
11: ...society, whether complex and city-dwelling, or simple and tribal. This definition is often perceived a...
17: ... or crude behavior. In this sense, civilization implies sophistication and refinement.
19: ===5: Superior vs. less complex societies===
20: ...[barbarian]]s"). This act of civilizing weaker peoples was sometimes called the "[[White Man's Burden]...
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