-Mesopotamia is commonly thought of as the first civilization. The truth is that Mesopotamia is just the area where the first civilizations were there different civilizations most broken up into city, states.
Uruk
-in about the year 5000 BC the city was founded
-had 50,000-80,000 people in its 6 km by 6 km walls in 2900 bce
Nippur
-Considered one of the most sacred groups
-Nippur was formed around the year 5000 bce
-but hit its peak around 2500 bce
-it was a special place of the worship to the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos
Nineveh
-One of the oldest cities
-founded around the year 6000 bce
-by 3000 bce they became very religious worshiping he goddess Ishtar
-There was an earthquake that destroyed the first temple of Ishtar
-Then it was later rebuilt in the year 2260 bce
Geography
-Its in between the Tigris and Euphrates river in Iraq
-The south gets a lot of rain. Mostly crops are grown there and the rivers irrigate the crops in the dry season
-The trade routes of how they would get there money and food are
Culture/Technology
-They used Cuneiform to write
-They used a base 60 numeral system this is where the 60 minute hour 24 hour day
and 360 degree circle. they used advanced mathematics invented the wheel only the sons of prominent people could go to school
Religion
-Believed that the world was a flat disk that was surrounded by a vast hollow space that this was enclosed in an over arching heaven
-The sea was all around the earth top bottom and sides
-The universe had been born of these waters
-They were a polytheistic society
-They were a patriarchal society
Sports
-Hunting, wrestling, polo with men sitting on the shoulders of other men instead of horses
, and majore a sport like rugby
Indus River civilization
Geography
-Father of Rivers
-Originating from the Tibetan Plateau
-Located in South Asia
-Tibet north of the Himalayas
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