Bronze Age (jan 1, 4000 BC – jan 1, 1000 BC)

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Made weapons and tools with bronze
Metal = wealth and status
Desire to acquire metals = first empire called "Akkads"
Conquered the Sumerians - spread of Sumerian culture
Civil war = Akkadian Empire falls = leads to Sumerian Dynasty Empire "UR ll" *Southern Mesopotamia
Ur "ll" has earliest law codes
*Assyrians = North Mesopotamia
Economically unstable because soil is exhausted
Lead to foreign trade in Anatolia
Market based Economy = many law codes and commerce laws = Hammurabi (King of Babylon)
Code of Hammurabi = eye to eye mentality
Social class discrimination + Limited legal rights for women
Foreign trade leads to actual letters + astronomy + Math

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