Tuesday, January 5, 2021

 

 

 

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From You Tube channel Documentary Warehouse

 

 

Mesopotamia is considered the cradle, or beginning, of civilization. Here large cities lined the rivers and many advances took place.

 

 

Mesopotamia at first glance does not look like an ideal place for a civilization to flourish. It is hot and very dry. There is very little rainfall in Lower

 

 

Mesopotamia. However, snow, melting in the mountains at the source of these two rivers, created an annual flooding. The flooding deposited silt, which is fertile, rich, soil, on the banks of the rivers every year.

 

 

This is why Mesopotamia is part of the fertile crescent, an area of land in the Middle East that is rich in fertile soil and crescent-shaped. The Sumerians were the first people to migrate to Mesopotamia, they created a great civilization. Beginning around 5,500 years ago, the Sumerians built cities along the rivers in Lower Mesopotamia, specialized, cooperated, and made many advances in technology. The wheel, plow, and writing (a system which we call cuneiform) are examples of their achievements. '

 

 

Cut up Ancient Mesopotamia.   Meso Meso Meso   



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and who was the Cain shem rejected by the moat god?
who was gob and mabgob?



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