We talked about Mesopotamia population increased due to irrigation techniques.
How cities and towns were founded.
How there was better food storage for priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians and farmers.
The kings emerged.
Sumerians created the early language we call "cuneiform".
a Patheon of Sumerian Gods and goddesses emerged, with many of the deities representing the natural elements of the world.
Sumerians first divided the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds: they also organized a calendar based on moon cycles.
the Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth.
Civilization in Mesopotamia
- wandering nomads drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia
- King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi's code" - laws that included "an eye for an eye" and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes.
Mesopotamia- the expansion
- Indo- Europeans were people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the near east.
- the warlike Indo- European tribe known as the Hittites settled in Asia Minor.
- The Hittites had a lucrative trade in metals and conquered nearly all of the neighbors, even threatening Egypt
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