Mesopotamia
- greek for the land between 2 rivers
- Pythagorean Theorem and 1st government
- Tigris and Euphrates
- trade and commerce
- baskets & pottery
- Euphrates-calm
- cities on bank
- irrigation crops minerals, grazing animals
- flooding, cities along river would abandon, change courses without notice
- tigris- fast and violent
- 3000 gods, write on clay, buriying people with items, gods decided what crops to grow
- 1st religion to be recorded, believed the world was flat, believed water covered the entire earth
- monthly festivals based on phases of the moon, phase of the annual agriculture cycle
- geograpy-located in fertile crescent, is centered around Euphrates west and tigris east
- boardering countries iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey
- water and warm climate and fertile soil
- lack of resources few trees little rain fall, traded their surplus for stone wood and metal
- fertile land seasonal rain
- worlds 1st cities began around 4000-3500 BC
- started with the emergence of ancient urban societies
- Ashur modern day iraq used for religious capitol
- nineveh oldest assyrian city
Nile River
- 4,160 miles long
- located in africa flows through egypt, sudan, uganda,
- greek word neios means river valley
- life depended on the river, birds, and crocodiles, provided resources, looked as the highway of transportation.
- trading was easy, they set up trade routes with cyprus, crete,
- egyptians, lived along both sides of river, 3 society classes
- dark skin, dark hair, men wore skirts and robes, women wore skirts and dresses, if you had money you wore sandals,
- religion based on nature sun god re or ra, god of nile hapi
- believed in life after death
- 40 million people
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