Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia was a place between two rivers. Mesopotamia is often called the land between two rivers. The rivers that Mesopotamia are called the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. It is in the middle of modern Iraq. mesopotamia is known for its rich soil, which is formed by the rivers. They created the first written language and the first official religion. Three different groups of people lived here. These groups were the Sumerians, the akkadians, and the Babylonians. Sumerians were the first people to live in this area. They lived between 3500 bce and 2370 bce. They created the prayer. The akkadians were the second group of people who lived in Mesopotamia. They lived between 2370 bce and 2100 bce. They created the code of ur nammu. The last group of people to live in Mesopotamia were the Babylonians. They lived between 1900 bce and 1500 bce. The Babylonians created Hammurabi's code. These people that lived in Mesopotamia valued many things. These things were important to them. According to the prayer, the code of ur nammu,…

Most people have heard about Mesopotamia, but don’t know much about the area. Mesopotamia comes from the Greek meaning “between two rivers”. These rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. The Tigris River flows through modern day Iraq and the Euphrates Rivers flows through Syria. This area was an region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded by in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau (Scarre, Christopher. The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development…

the differences in them made each society distinctive. Geography of both Egyptians and Mesopotamians majorly contributed to the religious beliefs of both societies. Both believed in polytheism, which was the belief of many gods. Only a few exceptions to this belief ever occurred. For the Mesopotamians, it was the Hebrews and the pharaoh Akhenaton for Egypt. The major belief in may gods was primarily due to nature and how it affective both. Examples of gods they worshiped were the sun god Ra in…

3500-1500 B.C.E two major civilizations started to thrive near the Middle East. Even though Mesopotamia and Egypt had many differences, their civilizations still had many similarities. Egypt and Mesopotamia were similar in farming, theocracy, and the belief of animism. They had more of a contrast between their feelings toward the Gods, unity of the government and states, and the way nature affects the society.The Tigris and Euphrates where a source of help for Mesopotamia as is the Nile to…

The Arise of Civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley The Fertile Crescent lies from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. The Fertile Crescent was a land named because of its good soil and its golden wheat fields. Within the Fertile Crescent was a region called Mesopotamia that the ancient Greeks had named later. This meant “between the rivers” where it was located it was between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river. In this area the world’s first civilization arose…

Mesopotamia means “land between the rivers” in Greek. The name basically reflects the centrality of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers to the way of life in this region. Mesopotamian civilization developed in the plain alongside and between the rivers, which originate in the mountains of eastern Anatolia and empty into the Persian Gulf. Mesopotamia lies mostly within modern Iraq. To the north and east, an arc of mountains extends from northern syria and southeastern Anatolia to the Zagros…

Mesopotamians were low on resources they could not make highly advanced transportation like planes or cars they had to carry goods to trade and keep their city running so they had to travel really far. They used chariots which we do not use now or rafts we use gasoline powered boats which work for a long time and that doesn't have to be fueled in a long time and mesopotamians had to row for a long time and that would get them tired so then they couldn't do other tasks and they also had to travel…

Stone Age they raised animals and learned to weave baskets, make clothing from plant fibers and wool, and make clay pots. 2. Mountain ranges prevented China from having contact with other cultures but also kept the enemies away. 3. Gilgamesh built a wall around his city for defense against attacks. 4. Yu responded to the Chinese people’s need for water by allowing the flow of water through the nine provinces. 5. Mesopotamia was located in the Fertile Crescent so the land is very fertile and…

As I read both readings I was intrigued as they both focused on ancient cities and states and their developments. In the article Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, by John Baines and Norman Yoffee they compare the differences in civilizations between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Later on I will explain what Baines and Yoffee mean by the terms they used to help us understand how ancient states developed and endured. Bruce G. Trigger explains the many distinctions between…

There are texts that are still in the process of being duplicated and published, and the studied are being continued to make plain the Sumerian language. But most of the characteristics of the civilizations portrayed above appeared in Mesopotamia before in the beginning of the written records. The fact seems to be that many aspects of the Sumerian civilizations appeared a little while after the Protoliterate period. The Sumerians home was located in Mesopotamia, in the lands between the Tigris…