Mesopotamia
- commonly thought of as the first civilazation.
- Mostly broken up into city states
- cities by the river.. Mari, Kutu, Babylon
- 2 rivers were Tigris and Euphrates
- The valley between T and E was known as between the rivers
- Never a regular supply of water
- Between the Tigris and Euphrates River in Iraq
- mainly desert in the north and marshes and lagoons in the South
- The south gets alot of rain
- About 5,800 sq. miles
- trade route of how they get there food are wine, animals, donkeys, and camels
- alot of trading was done with the Persians and India
- Trading done between 4000 and 6000 BCE
- they used cuneform to write
- they were advanced in mathematics invented the wheel
- they used a base of the number 60
- they belived that the world was a flat disk that was inclosed by a over arching heaven
- they thought the sea was all aorund the earth
- they believed in many gods
- the fathers were the heads of the household
- hunting, wrestling, polo, majore- games they played
- government was a monarchy
- they believed that their rulers were decedants were from gods
Uruk-in about 5000 BCE Uruk was founded
- Largest city in the world at a time
Nippur- 5000BCE
- hit its peak around 2500 BCE
- special place of the worship to the Sumerian god
Ninevah- 6000 BCE
- one of the oldet cities
- became very religious, worshipping Ishtar
- Earthquake destroyed the first temple of Ishtar-rebulit in 2260 BCE
Indus
- meant the Father of Rivers
- originated from the Tibetan Plateau- located in south asia
- valley people have mountains and deserts protecting them
- the religion is still uncertain
- people were born into social classes and they never changed
- the women were valued for making babies
- the kids took over there parents jobs
- highly organized ag
- trade was a big part of there culture
- Harappa- was one of the biggest and first cities, largest known site was Ganweriwala
- Mohenjo-Daro- divided into two portions, Citadel was the lower city, they had sanitation systems
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