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Today in Western Civilization we went over what would be on the test tomorrow. I especially took some notes since I have not been in school for the past couple of days. Here are the notes I wrote.

Fertile Crescent

·      Good place to farm

·      Fertile soil

·      People decided to finally settle

·      Organized groups of people with laws and hierarchy

·      Eventually moved to Egypt with all of their skills

·      14,000 years ago there was a human race

·      Paleolithic Stone Age – first and earliest age

·      Neolithic Stone Age – new stone age with more advanced tools and skills

·      Agriculture Revolution – revolution with new tools and new ways to have an established town

·      New jobs were available such as making clothes, artisan

·      Women had low status’s in society

·      Women raised children

·      Men did most of the work

·      Some towns had as much as 40,000 inhabitants

·      Sumerians came up with cuneiform – a form of writing

·      They had gods and goddesses of nature and animals

·      Epic of Gilgamesh – world was flooded

·      (Noah’s Ark based on the Epic of Gilgamesh)

·      Ziggurat – Sumerian built stepped temples which were very big

·      Wandering Nomads drove herds of animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia

·      King Hammurabi of Babylon

·      Hammurabi’s Code

·      Indo-Europeans were people who moved from Mesopotamia to India and Europe