Mesopotamia
- First places of Phythgorean theorem and first government
- greek for land between two rivers
- Between Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- baskets and pottery were big trade
- Euphrates- calm
- Irrigation
- Challenges-flooding, cities would abandon, rivers would change courses, tigris-fast and violent
- believed in many gods
- wrote on clay tablets
- thought the world was a flat disc
- believed water covered the entire earth
- had monthly festivals based on phases of moon
- located in the fertile crescent
- bordering countries- iran, jordan, kuwait, saudi arabia, syria
- few trees
- lack of resources
- worlds first cities began around 4000-3500 bc in mesopotamia
- historic cities-babylon
- known for its color and luxury
- Ashur
- in modern day iraq
- used as a capital, buried kings there
Nile
- 4160 miles long
- located in africa, flows through sudan, uganda, egypt
- comes from greek work nilios which means "river valley"
- life was dependant on the river
- the "chief" of transport
- trading
- egyptians lived along both sides of the nile river
- 3 economic classes- upper, middle, lower
- religion was based on nature
- sun god-re, and god of the nile, hapi
- believed in life after death
- preserved people in mummies
- 3 civilizations formed. Nubia, Kemet, and Kush
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