EARLY CIVILISATIONS
BIRTH 6000 B.C.
EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS
MESOPOTAMIA
NILEEGYPT
MESOPOTAMIA
UPPER MESOPOTAMIA(NORTH) LOWER MESOPOTAMIA
(SOUTH)
FERTILITY OF ITS LANDS MADE PEOPLE SETTLE THERE AND BUILT CITY STATES.
MESOPOTAMIA
Assyria(assyrians)
NORTH
AKKAD(AKKADIANS)
CENTER
SUMER(SUMERIANS)
SOUTH
historySumerians3500 BC
AkkadiansSargon I of Akkad.3500BC
1950 BCBabyloniansNomadic tribesUnified the country.(Hammurabi).1950 BC
Assyrians(Ashurbanipal)
Again Babylonians: 625 BCNeo Babylonian Empire
(Nebuchadnezzar II )
539 BCPersiansKing Cirus II named itMesopotamia
331 BC Greeks(Alexander the Great)
ECONOMYArable crops (cereals)
Livestock
Craftwork
Trade
SOCIETYKING
The ruling Caste
Other free people
slaves
religion
An God of the Sky and father of the gods
Enlil GOD OF THE AIR AND STORMS
Ishtar Goddess of love
Enki God of wisdom
Believed in gods
Life after deathMagic andDivination
Arts & sciencesLibraries
Literary works: epic poems
Mathematical operations (without zero)
Astronomy: eclipses, revolution, lunarCalendar.
Medicine: medical instruments,diagnosis For illnesses
Architecture and artBuildings : made of adobe; sometimes marble or alabaster. Semicircular arches and vaults.
Palace of Shapur ITemples
Ziggurat
Sculpture
StatueRelief
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