inportance of tivers: tigrus and euphrates, trade and commerce baskets and pottery,
inportance cont, calm, cities on banks irrigation, crops, minerals, and animals
challenges- flooding, citites along river would abandon, changing courses without notice, tigris- fast and violent
Culture- the mesopotamians believe in many gods., there way of writing, burying people with items, what the gods decide.
beliefs- there religion first to be recored , world flat disc, water coverd the entire earth
monthly festivals- phases of the moon and annual agricultural
geography- located in the fertile cresent, mesopotamis is centered around
bordering countries, iran jordan kuwait saudi arabia
why they settled- water warm climate soil
lack of resources- few trees very little rain fall.
emergences of cities
worlds first cities began around 4000-3500 bc
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