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1、WorldHistoryInthebeginning…FirstCivilizations:AfricaandAsia(3200B.C.–500B.C.)AncientSumerSumer,theoldestcivilizationoftheMiddleEastFertileCrescentSumerTheSumeriansmadegreatadvancesinmathematicsandastronomy.SoyoucanblamethemforalgebraandGeometryUsed6astheirnumericalbaseSO…60minutesinanhours360deg

2、reesinacircleEgypt:GiftoftheNileEgyptiancivilizationarosealongthefertilebanksoftheNileRiverinnortheasternAfrica.NileRiverMapSECTION5TheWorldoftheHebrewsTheWorldoftheHebrewsbeganinUroftheChaldeans(Sumer)Abram(Patriarch)heardGodtellhimtogotoaPromisedLandMesopotamia’slocatedatageographicalcrossroad

3、sfortrade&MigrationincludingBabylonians,Assyrians&Persians!animismThebeliefintheexistenceofindividualspiritsthatinhabitnaturalobjectsandphenomenaHammurabi1790BCBabylonianKingConquersmostofMespopotamiaLawCodeofHammurabiCodeofHammurabiStandardizedLaw=ConsistentCodifiedLaw=WrittenEveryoneknewtheLAW

4、Ifnotequaleveryonehadequalprotectionunderthelaw…evenwomenCodeofHammurabiTheCodeofHammurabiwasalistof282lawsbroughttogetherandwrittenonan8foottallstonepillarin1280ADforallthepeopleofBabyloniatosee.WhatismostfamousaboutHammurabi?Youprobablyassumeitwasonesimplelaw.“Aneyeforaneye.”Andalthoughthatwas

5、alaw,anditisfamous,Hammurabi’scodewasasetoflawsforeveryonetofollow,withsetpunishmentifnotfollowed.BrilliantIdea?Right?#229Ifabuilderbuildsahouseforamananddoesnotmakeitsconstructionsound,andthehousewhichhehasbuiltcollapsesandcausesthedeathoftheownerofthehouse,thebuildershallbeputtodeath.#110Ifa"s

6、isterofgod"(nun)whoisnotlivinginaconventopensawineshoporentersawineshopforadrink,theyshallburnthatwoman.53Ifanyonebetoolazytokeephisdaminpropercondition,anddoesnotsokeepit;ifthenthedambreakandallthefieldsbeflooded,thenshallheinwhosedamthebreakoccurredbesoldformoney,andthemoneyshallreplacethecorn

7、whichhehascausedtoberuined.21Ifanyonebreakaholeintoahouse(breakintosteal),heshallbeputtodeathbeforethatholeandbeburied.195Ifasonstrikehisfather,hishandsshallbecutoff.196Ifamanputouttheeyeofanotherman,hiseyeshallbeputout.[Ane