Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mesopotamia
- "between the Rivers"
- Sumer
- First Mesopotamian Civilization
- Formed City-States
- The basic unit of summerian civilization
- Religion
- Polytheistic
- Believed the gods were
the cause of all good and
bad things
- Ziggurat
- Massive stepped
tower on which a
temple to the chief
God or Godddess was
built
- Could also serve as a
food storehouse
- Architecture
- Built using mud bricks
- Invented arch and dome
- Government
- Theocracy
- Government established
upon divine authority
- Kings held great power
- Writing
- Cuneiform
- Wedge shaped
system of writing
- Akkad
- Assyria
- Had Rich soil from silt
deposits left from the rivers
flooding
- Flooding was unpredictable
- Farmers learned to control
the floods with
irrigation