Notes

World History A - The Ancient Near East
-cities had developed in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley
-Mesopotamian geography influenced the location and the type of civilizations that occurred
-Sumerian civilization was brought up pretty well too with a government of city-states that developed educational and religious systems
- the locations were sometimes a disadvantage
- the river valley had no predictable river flooding and no geographic protection
- was proved vulnerable by outside people
-along the Mesopotamian sea that went along Tigris and Euphrates river to the Persian Gulf lays a region in the shape of a crescent; known as the Fertile Crescent
-home to the world's first civilization- Mesopotamia
-food productions became more reliable and plentiful in which it could now be produced by fewer people
- some people gave up on farming and became merchants, craftsman, laborers, and etc..
-Mesopotamian towns and villages became independent and self- sufficient city- states
- had little interest in unification with other Mesopotamian city-states
-around 3000 B.C, what is now Iraq an advanced civilization had developed the Sumerians
- these people of Sumer had developed schools, paved road, corporations, literature, and writing
- had built templates called ziggurats (centers of trade and government
-was made for the living
-cuneiform - oldest written language written known to humanity
-were credited for creating the wheel; there time system based on 60 minutes, is basis for our clocks
-because of Sumerians writing Archaeologists have learned a lot about them
-Sumerians created writing tablets on wet clay with a reed stylus
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