Mesopotamia

The Levant also know as the fertile cresent, homeland of the semetics.

i think they had many good times. but i believe the best was during what is called the 'middle kingdom' after that, according to historians, it all went downhill.
The earliest evidence of settled human habitation in the Nile delta, dated back to c. 5000 B.C.. Egypt flourished for more than 3,000 years, making it one of the longest-living civilizations in all of history.

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the Mesopotamian code of laws[98-02 code law0 coOmma1] ]helped restore order to the society of proprietors raging toward war.

i have no clue. but this is my social studies question tonight. and i cant find it anywhere! please respond!

The name of the region that was formed in southern Mesopotamia by 3000 b.c. is Sumer.

Sargon of Akkad was a great Mesopotamian ruler who people like to say created the first great empire and the story of his birth is much like the story of Moses. His contribution to Mesopotamia was a change in Military, he formed great strategies and that is how he won over all of the city-states.

The early people of Mesopotamia were polytheistic (had many gods).

Both the Sumerians and Akkadians believed in hundreds of gods and demons that controlled various aspects of the natural world.

There were no real established religions when Mesopotamia was founded. The Sumerians had various gods for each city-state, and large temples called ziggurats. There were also smaller temples for offerings by the people. Some of the Sumerian gods were Anu (heaven), Ki (earth), Enki (wisdom), Enlil (lord of air), Inanna (goddess of love and war), Utu (a sun god), and Nanna (a moon god). The Akkadians (c. 2400 BC) had many similar gods under different names.

Well, it is not able to be spelled on the computer because they wrote in cuneiform (q ney e form). Each letter was a series of wedges and lines. They wrote with a stylus (wedge-shaped) on a clay tablet. Look up cuneifrom to find out how to write it. It takes a long time doing it on paper with a pen, but it is even longer on the the clay tablet with a stylus. I did it in history. It took forever.

the sumerians were the first group of people to inhabit mesopotamia. they originally lived in the mountains but moved to the plain of shinar near the Persian gulf to take advantage of the fertile soil.

Agriculture

The main occupation of the Mesopotamians was agriculture. The Euphrates and Tigris rivers were their main sources of water supply.Flooding was irregular .So they built an elaborate and highly developed irrigation system to ensure the steady supply of water throughout the year they also built dyke's to control floods.

Domestication of animals

They domesticated animals such as the cows and goat sheep and donkey.

Art and Craft

The increase In agricultural production and abundant stocks of food supplies freed the population from toiling in the Field's

There was really only one form of Sumerian writing, the cuneiform script made out of various combinations of wedge shapes (Latin cuneus, "wedge'). This system developed out a combination of arbitrary shapes impressed in clay, and pictures drawn with a reed stylus. A history of the script can be found at ancientscripts.com (see related link below).

They both based their culture on religion. The Mesopotamians feared their gods because their gods punished them for wrong doings like making the river flood unpredictably. In Egypt, they accepted their gods, but didn't fear them. They viewed the world an consistent and peaceful because that's all they had known. The Nile flooded every year which helped the agriculture. Both civilizations were polytheistic, which means worshipped more than one god. The Mesopotamians followed the Code of Hammurabi, a law system. The egyptians did not have a law system set in stone. The Mesopotamians had a defined social grouping system, while the egyptians did not. There was a social grouping system, but it wasn't as complex or official. Women were held higher in Egypt, but still not as high as the men. Not much about mesopotamian women is known because they were not written about, but we know that they were much lower then men were. In Mesopotamia, the kings represented the gods, while the Egyptian kings were viewed as gods.

In Sumerian social structure kings, landholders and priests were the highest and next wealth merchants and a majority of Sumerians who are slaves and farmers. Women had a lot of rights to do anything that men can do such as priesthood and artisans and other. In ancient Mesopotamia the Sumerians undertook the stupendous task of building embankments to control the floodwaters of the Euphrates River. The rich soil produced abundant crops such as wheat and barley. For the first time there was a surplus to feed city workers such as artists, craftsmen, and merchants. Good soil is good to these. This great change in living habits brought about civilized defined as a city-based society held together by economic enterprises. There were no nations then, only small city-states.

== == Yes, the first known wheel shape is discovered in Mesopotamia during the Sumerian Civilization around 3500BC in the city of Ur which is nowadays located south of Iraq.

Source: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/wheel.htm

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Uruk is bigger than Babylon, which is in Mesopotamia too! How dandy.

Mesopotamia was in Egyept. Not in irac whatever u call it!

The Mesopotamians were the first civilization, so therefore, they "came up" with the first religion. The Mesopotamians were polytheistic, which means they worshipped many gods. The gods the Mesopotamians worshipped were based on the natural happenings, their harvest's, hurricanes, and they loved (especially) one god that they claimed "made" the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flood in the summertime every year, so the crops were extra rich from the silt in the water, which came from the mountains.

Mesopotamia means "land between the two RIVERS" not "land between the two SEAS". The two rivers that Mesopotamia sits between are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. However, the region of Mesopotamia sits between the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Black, and the Caspian Sea (though does not occupy all of the land in that area).

Hanging Gardens of Babylonia were extremly important because it showed the pride babylonia had over many conquered nation now united as one creating a empire. Ziggurats were important because they were pyramid like buildings that were used as temples to pray and make offerings to their gods.

Mesopotamia existed in "The Fertile Crescent." Now consisting of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and the Northwest corner of Egypt, between the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea.

yramids and ziggurats both provide archeologists with a great deal of information about the ancient cultures that constructed them. When comparing The Great Pyramids of Egypt with The Ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the differences between them are more apparent than the similarities that they share. The two structures actually only appear to be similar. Both have the general form of a pyramid. Some other similarities shared by these two types of structures can be interpreted from the context of the religions of those who had them erected and what role they served for the society. Among the differences are their intended usage, how they were decorated, their designs, and the materials used in their construction. In order to clearly describe how different these two structures are, I have summarized some information about their designs and the materials used to build them. Contrasts in the decorations of the two types of structures are then discussed. The intended uses of these structures then introduces some similarities in relation to the religious symbolism of the structures.

Considered to be among the greatest wonders of the known world, The Pyramids of Egypt were built with exacting precision from granite blocks. The pyramids of the early dynasties were of a more stepped pyramid form, similar in appearance to the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. Advancements in available technologies and construction techniques in the later dynasties of ancient Egypt allowed for pyramids to be constructed with less of a stepping slop. A pyramid has four triangular sides that come together at point on top. It may sound simple, but the designs of the pyramids represent a complex understanding of mathematical principles, such as trigonometry and the Fibonocci series, by the ancient Egyptians. It is believed that in addition to the mathematical understandings represented in the geometric form of the pyramids, an impressively accurate understanding of the earth

The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians & Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire.