Review

Mesopotamia

• Sumerians were first people to live in Mesopotamia
• They gave us writing and laws
• Code of Hammurabi was first written law in the world
• They built large cities
• Trade routes
• They wrote the history of the birth of man kind
• Ziggurat was a temple
• Hebrew scriptures describe the Garden of Eden to be in Mesopotamia
• Had once been the cradle of a civilization

Egypt

• Death is the single most important thing about Egyptian culture
• The Pharaoh was God on Earth
• Mummified body because the Kah would exist outside of the body
• When the Kah was called to judgement, the heart was weighed against a feather
• This determines whether or not you could go to the afterlife or whether your soul would be destroyed
• The Nile floods 4 months of the year
• Nomadic travelers settled around the Nile
• The Nile creates a partition through Africa
• Egypt exists along the Nile
• The Pharaoh was responsible for the annual flooding of the Nile
• As the water from the monsoon goes into the Nile, it brings silt and sediment from the land
• The flood plane gets bigger because of this

Minoans

• Lived on Crete
• Unexpectedly ceases to function
• Island north of Crete erupted creating natural disasters for Crete
• Volcano destroyed the harvests in Crete for multiple years

Misonians

• Trojan War
• King of Troy was Prius
• Trojan war may or may not be true. The story could be describing an earthquake because Poseidon is the God of horses and earthquakes. The Trojan horse could have been an earthquake