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Hammurabi was an ancient Babylonian

king.

A well-preserved ancient law code 1790BC. now found in Louvre Museum

The Code of Hammurabi was one of

several sets of laws in th

e Ancient NearEast

The Code consists of 282 laws

Is inscribed in the Akkadian language


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Examples:

If anyone steals the minor son of another, he

shall be put to death. If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no

intercourse withher, this woman is no wife tohim.

If a man puts out the eye of an equal, hiseye shall be put out.


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For one hundred years after the decline

of the Old Kingdom (2134-2040 BC), the

once proud land of Egypt splintered intodozens of independent states.

The dynasty they began, the EleventhDynasty, marks the beginning of the

Middle Kingdom.


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Old Kingdom collapsed due to famine

and loss of confidence in the central

government, restoration of which gavebirth to the Middle Kingdom.

stretching from the establishment of theEleventh Dynasty to the end of the

Fourteenth Dynasty

Egyptian rule extended to Syria as wellas South into Nubia


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the beginning of the Osiris funerary cult

was witnessed.

saw the beginning of rock tombs in theValley of the Kings

comprises two phases:

11th Dynasty ruled from Thebes 12th Dynasty - centered around el-Lisht


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considered to the golden age due to

its rich literary, architectural and scientific

legacy.


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The eleventh dynasty of ancient Egypt (notatedDynasty XI) was one group of rulers, and they allruled Thebes

It was during this dynasty that all of ancient Egypt

was united under the Middle Kingdom.

This dynasty traces its origins to a nomarch ofThebes, "Intef the Great, son of IkuHowever, his

immediate successor Mentuhotep I is consideredthe first king of this dynasty.,


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Amenemhet I was compelled to

campaign in the Delta region, which

had not received as much attention asupper Egypt during the 11th Dynasty.

he strengthened defenses betweenEgypt and Asia, building the Walls of the

Ruler in the East Delta region


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Amenemhat I built a new capital for Egypt in thenorth, known as Amenemhet Itj Tawy, or

Amenemhet, Seizer of the Two Lands

During the First Intermediate Period, the governors

of the nomes of Egypt, nomarchs, gainedconsiderable power. Their posts had becomehereditary, and some nomarchs entered into

marriage alliances with the nomarchs ofneighboring nomes


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To strengthen his position, Amenemhet requiredregistration of land, modified nome borders, andappointed nomarchs directly when offices

became vacant, but acquiesced to the nomarchsystem, probably in order to placate the nomarchs

who supported his rule.

This gave the Middle Kingdom a more feudal

organization than Egypt had before or would haveafterward.


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the process of working

metal into artifacts

The place and time of theinvention of bronze are still

debated

bronze age the most advanced

metalworking used bronze


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periods around the world in which

bronze was in general use.

Ended when the generalization wasbrought it (iron age)


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second of the complex Bronze Age

owe a great deal of their culture to their

predecessors, the Minoans of Crete Mycenaeans left behind numerous

documents in their written language,

Linear B, wh

ich

h

ave now beendeciphered and translated.


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Record the economic transactions and

other activities of every day life

Mycenaeans are traditionally thought tohave been a very warlike people,

spreading their influence throughconquest.

had contact with the Egyptians, and

most likely also with the Hittites of AsiaMinor.


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waged against the city of Troy by the

Achaeans(Greeks) after Paris of Troy

took Helen from herhusband Menelaus,the king of Sparta.

war was fought between the Greeks andTrojans with their allies

lasted for ten years and it has been

traditionally dated from 1194 to 1184 BC.


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among the most

important events in

Greek mythology narrated in many

works of Greekliterature- Iliad and

Odyssey


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a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the

tropical lowlands of south-central

Mexico, near the modern-day cities ofVeracruz and Tabasco.

first civilization in the Western Hemisphereto develop a writing system

hieroglyphs known as " Epi-Olmec


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Means rubber people

Their religion developed all the important

themes- (obsession with mathematicsand with calendars, spiritual focus on

death expressed throughhumansacrifice)


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Direction finder

form of a magnetic needle floating in a

bowl of water Dry compass

dry suspension compass, a wooden framecrafted in the shape of a turtle hung upside

down by a board, with the lodestone sealedin by wax, and if rotated, the needle at thetail would always point in the northerncardinal direction


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Chinese fortune tellers used lodestones

(a mineral composed of an iron oxide

which aligns itself in a north-southdirection) to construct their fortune

telling boards.

someone noticed that the lodestones

were better at pointing out real

directions, leading to the first compasses.


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designed the compass on a square slab

whichhad markings for the cardinal

points and the constellations. The pointing needle was a lodestone

spoon-shaped device, with a handlethat would always point south.


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http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinv

entions/a/Compass.htm

http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/trojanwar.html

http://metamedia.stanford.edu/projects

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aeopaedia/143 http://www.pustakalaya.org/wiki/wp/o/

Olmec.htm

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