Mesopotamia and Egypt were the two earliest civilizations in the Near East. In the Mesopotamia, the earliest religion was Sumer and it was from 4000-2900 B.C.E. This religion and the politics from the Sumer went hand and hand, it was a theocracy. Other civilizations followed the ways of the Sumerian beliefs, but some didn’t not last but for a short period of time and were not successful.
The word Mesopotamia means land between rivers, which it’s true because it falls between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. People of the earliest civilization used copper and bronze, irrigation, created some form of writing, developed flood-plain agriculture, and had a complex religious and political system. Also the location of where Mesopotamia was
The word Mesopotamia means land between rivers, which it’s true because it falls between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. People of the earliest civilization used copper and bronze, irrigation, created some form of writing, developed flood-plain agriculture, and had a complex religious and political system. Also the location of where Mesopotamia was