Notes:
Mesopotamia-
- Pythagorean theorem and first government
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Trade and commerce baskets and pottery
- Many cities on banks
- Irrigation for crops, grazing animals
- lots of flooding, rivers change courses without notice
- 3 000 gods
- writing on clay plates and people buried with them to tell life story
- world was flat and water covered earth
- Monthly festivals based on phases of moon
- Located in the fertile crescent
- hills and plains mostly flat and marshy
- Iran Jordan Kuwait Saudi Arabia Syria and turkey
- Settled area for water, fertile soil silt
- few trees, little rain in south traded for things they didn't have
- rain in north, mountains and hills, most water in river comes from snow in mountains
- 4000-3500 B.C. ancient urban societies
- Uruk, Nippur, Babylon (capitol) colorful and luxury
- Ashur, modern day Iraq used for religious capitol
- Nippur, religious regions
- Nineveh, modern day Iraq
Nile River-
- 4 160 miles
- Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi
- Nelios means river valley
- Life was very dependent on the river
- The "Chief" of transport
- Trading was very easy on Nile
- The people were called Egyptians
- 3 classes of society, upper, middles, lower
- Dark skin and hair
- men wore skirts and robes women skirts and dresses
- sandal= money
- women makeup and painted fingernails
- nature religion, sun god Re
- god of Nile, Hapi
- life after death, preserved people in money, clothing food in tombs
- 40 million people
- still used today
- Nubia- land of bow
- Kemet- star of Africa
- Kush- the jewel of Nubia
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