Today we are presenting and listening to others presentations.
Mesopatamia - pythagorean theorm, first government
- greek for the land between two rivers
Importance of 2 rivers
- tigris and euphrates
- trade and commerce
- baskets and pottery
- crops, irrigation
- minerals
- grazing animals
Challenges - flooding, change courses without notice.
Culture-
- believed in many gods
- write on clay rocks
- bury people with items
- gods decided what crops would be grown
Beliefs - believed the world was flat disk, water covered the entire earth, believed universe was born from the enormous sea.
Monthy Festivals - over many things such as phases of the moon, and also earth stuff.
Geography -
- located in fertile crescent
- mesopotamia is centered around he euphrates and tigris rivers
- borderind countries - iran, jordan , kuwait, saudi arabia, syria, ect...
- people settled for water, warm climate, fertile soil
- lack of resources - few trees, little rainfall, traded surplus for stone, wood, and metal.
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