Mesopotamia

Ziggurats were temples.

Like many ancient people, the ancient Sumerians believed that powerful gods lived in the sky. They built huge structures, called ziggurats, with steps climbing up to the top. Religious ceremonies were held at the very top. People left offerings of food and wine. The priests enjoyed these offerings, as the gods could not eat for themselves.

The Ziggurat was built in the center of town. It was the center of daily life. Except for festivals, which, for the most part, were gloomy things, the Ziggurat courtyard was gay and lively. You might see an artist painting, a boy racing by on his way to school, someone milking a cow or making a basket.

From the top of the Ziggurat, you could see the protective wall built about the entire town, and over the wall to the farmlands beyond.

The fertile crescent is not that fertile anymore because of global warming. global warming affects the atmosphere, especially air pollution, and it makes us more vulnerable to the suns heat, as you have noticed maybe that it's very hot lately. the heat has dried up most of the fertile crescent.

Well, I may be wrong (although I'm pretty sure I'm not) but I believe the Fertile Crescent is actually no longer fertile because the people who lived there did not practice sustainable farming. Therefore, they exhausted all of the valuable nutrients in the ground.

Flint was used in the stone age to make stone tools. They did this through a process called flint-knapping.

depends what shape it was cut to.

Spear, arow tip, mace,

knife,

tool,

fire lighting tool,

was and still (though rarely) used for building materials

scrapers

razers

religion was what brought people together. It signified that people were progressing from individual city-states to more progressive conglomerates that were uniting for a common cause which often tended to be religion.

Yes it was because the land would flood, and irrigation stored the water :) Hope i helped!!

Yes, it was taken in as part of the Persian expansion westwards.

Thename of the king of the Akkadians who conquered Mesopotamia in 2340bc was Sargon.

well the women's role in society was to grind grain, cook, make beers, how to weave cloth for clothes. women also could own ,sell property. the children maybe had to mend and tend to the field i am not sure though about the children's roles.

I learn about mesopotamia is Mesopotamia is a fertile area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates river in what we now know as Iraq. It is considered the cradle of civilization because some of the earliest civilizations developed here.

They went to gain more land and irrigation water. Also, to gain glory.

The Babylonians used cuneiform to write the Akkadian and Babylonian Languages. Cuneiform tablets were written by pressing reed styluses to clay blocks and then left to harden.

I'm actually learning this in school right now (which is quite odd). They settled in this area gradually. As they soon as they learned basic farming (from the neolithic age) it influenced people to settle near the rivers (such as Mesopotamia). This then leads to more advanced people with lots of new forms of tech, social classes and etc.

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Farming there depended heavily on the Nile, both for growing crops and transporting materials.

The flooding in Mesopotamia brings silt which blends in with the soil, making it rich and good for farming.

it stunk. food was old. people fought to much. it was a MAD HOUSE!

Actually, there were civilizations before the Sumerians that invented Math. Babylonians had worked on it. There also civilizations before them. But we dont know that because HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY WINNERS. So if that civilization was conquered or destroyed then the winner wouldnt write about them because then they would glorify them more than themselves.

The Sumerians made many cultural contributions that are still in use today. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the longest surviving literary achievement known to man. The Sumerians also pioneered the brick making and brick work of modern times.

rulers and priest, wealthy merchants, artisans

In much the same way that modern Christians try to please their God, the Sumerians pleased their gods in order to bring good fortune upon themselves. They accepted the priests as their religious leaders because they were intermediaries between the people and the gods.

they were all located along the same river systems. <--------This is GOLd!!

The scribes wrote on clay tablets that indicated what they were trying to communicate with other members of their city state. Scribes were also needed to record food and other materials. Scribes were very important in Mesopotamia.

So far as we know, no civilizations predated Mesopotamian civilization. Experts reached the conclusion after years of studying the languages and the ruins.

The man was in control of the household

An oasis is a small area in a desert where there is a permanent water source and more abundant plant life than is found in the surrounding desert.