1. The Origins of Civilization

2. The Origins of Civilization -- Terms
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Revolution (c. 10,000 B.C.)
Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Fertile Crescent
Sumer (c. 3,500 B.C.)
Cuneiform
Ziggurat Ur
Akkad (c. 2,370 B.C.)
Sargon
- Babylon (c. 1,800 B.C.)
* Hammurabi (r. 1,792 – 1,750 B.C.)
- Enuma Elish
- Gilgamesh (c. 2,000 B.C.)

3. Paleolithic Age (The Old Stone Age)
Man Developed:
Spoken language
Primitive tools
Ability to control fire
Lived as nomadic hunters

4. Sympathetic Magic

5. Marcelino de Sautuola & Daughter, Maria

6. De Sautuola’s Cave Paintings

7. Cave Paintings

8. Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Revolution)
Man Began To:
Settle down
Farm
Domesticate animals
Develop better tools

9. Zagros Mountains

10. Catal Huyuk

11. Catal Huyuk

12. Catal Huyuk

13. Mesopotamia

14. Mesopotamia--The Fertile Crescent & the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

15. Sumer (c. 3,500 B.C.)

16. Cuneiform

17. Ziggurat (Reproduction of Ziggurat of Ur)

18. Ziggurat at Nanna (Present-Day Iraq)

19. Akkad (World’s First Empire—c. 2,370 B.C.) )

20. Sargon

21. Babylon (c. 1,800 B.C.)

22. Hammurabi (r – 1750 B.C.)

23. Code of Hammurabi

24. Code of Hammurabi

25. Enuma Elish (Hymn of Creation)

26. Gilgamesh (c. 2,000 B.C.)