Mesopotamia.
-commonly thought of as an empire, Mesopotamia is a region.
-Uruk was one of the first cities. contained 50k-80k people. largest in the world at the time.
-Nippur was concidered one of the more sacred places. they worshiped the sumerian god Enlil, ruler of the Cosmos
-Nineveh was founded 1000 years before the two prior cities. worshiped Ishtar in the first temple that was destroyed by an earthquake.
-the rivers in this region were the Tigris and the Euphrates
-mainly desert in the north with marshes and mudflats in the south.
-trade was based off of domestic animals, wine, donkeys, gemstones, camels pottery and horses.
-script was cuneiform. it looks like hieroglyphs but much more complex
-they used the first 60-based number system and invented the wheel.
-they believed that the earth was a flat disc that was surrounded by water.
-played activities like hunting, wrestling, polo with another person instead of a horse
-Government was a monarchy, and created the first code of law, and was eventually broken up into a city-state system.
-Indus
-indus means the father of rivers
-north of the Himalayas
-they had many natural mountains and valleys to protect them
-people were born into their social classes
-when children grew up, they took their parents job
-Harappa was one of the biggest and first of the indus cities.
-Mohenjo-daro was a city divided in two. not much is know of the upper half, but the lower half was called the citadel.
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