Continued textbook notes

• • process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another is called cultural diffusion
  • the belief in more than one god is called polytheism
  • Enil the god of storms and air
  • Sumerians believed that the souls of the dead went to the "land of no return"
  • kings, landholders, and some priest made up the highest level of society
  • Sumerian people worked in the land and workshops
  • lowest level of society were the slaves
  • women worked as merchants, farmers, and artisans
  • Sumerians invented the wheel, sail, and the plow, and first to use bronze
  • developed a number system in base 60
  • arches, columns, ramps, and the pyramid shaped the design of the ziggurat
  • one of the first known maps was made on a clay tablet in about 2300 BC
  • 3000-2000 BC- city states of Sumer were constantly at war with one another
  • 2350 BC- a conqueror named Sargon defeated the city states of Sumer
  • Sargon created the world's first empire
  • empire brings together several peoples, nations, or independent states under the control of one ruler
  • 2000 BC- nomadic warriors invaded Mesopotamia
  • Hammurabi's code lists 282 specific laws
  • Code set different punishments for the rich and poor, men and women