Mesopotamia
-birth place of Pythagorean Theorum
-greek for land between two rivers
-few natural resources, relied on trade
-had to irrigate for crops to survive
-floods would destroy crops
-believed in many gods
-buried people with their items
-first recorded religion
-thought earth was flat
-fertile crescent
-middle east
-few trees no rain in the southern end
-first cities
-bega around 400-3500 B.C.
-Uruk, Nippur
-babylon was the capital
Nile River
-4,160 miles long
-in Africa
-flows backwards
-life near the river relied soley on the river to provide for them
-the "chief" of transport
- 3 classes: upper class, traders merchants, middle class, unskilled worker lower class
-Sun god- Re or Ra
-God of the Nile-hapi
-Mummies were started by the people of the nile
-river valley regions seperated into upper and lower egypt in 3200 b.c.
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