Mesopotami The Cradle Of Civilization

Sumerian kings where military leaders. They would have to protect their people yet control the military. The kings would set up the military as well as making sure the military was strong enough in battle. ancient Mesopotamians believed that taking over other lands was a mission and it wasn’t easy or granted to them. The kings where to have made sure each warrior had their own set of armor and weapons when a battle would happen. Winning a war in the Sumerian society looked very good on the king because they would get more land.

The Fertile Crescent stretches like a crescent moon from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, containing Egypt and Mesopotamia. The terms mentioned throughout the essay are different empires and locations. Sumer was the first civilization and is located in the narrowing plain between the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. About 5,000 years ago, Sumerians developed writing, construction of cities, and domestication of animals. The Akkadians took over Sumer around 2350 BCE when Sargon I. became leader and began seizing territories as reward for winning a war. Ancient egypt, laid southwest of the Fertile Crescent alongside the Nile River in Africa. People have lived there since around 5000 BCE and began

Generally within textbooks on Western civilization it tells us about how the Sumerians began organized agriculture, domesticated wheat and such animals as the horse and donkey, initiated urban living by building cities, and invented writing and the wheel. The Sumerians, apparently, initiated human civilization 6000 years ago. Nevertheless, European (white) written textbooks do not recognize them like they

Beginning with Mesopotamia, according to McKay Mesopotamia was part of the Fertile Crescent, which was where the first agriculture developed (McKay, 35). Moving from Mesopotamia to the city-state Sumer, many farmers brought with them their farming tools and trade abilities so that they could successfully farm in warmer, more arid climates (McKay, 35). Irrigation was a major part of the process and was needed for them to succeed. As the civilization grew, people built temples in Mesopotamia, where farmers would use them to store food items and animals. To the Mesopotamian people, the belief of Polytheism, which is that of many Gods controlling the earth and world, brought a distinct outlook on life (McKay, 36). Sumerian

The Sumerians created a civilization located in the Fertile Crescent, or Mesopotamia, which is located in the Middle East. The legendary ruler of the Sumerians, Hammurabi, was famous for his set

Mesopotamia is a rich flat plain created by deposits from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. At the southern end of this plain developed the first recognizable civilization, in the area known as Sumer. In 3000 B.C. Sumer contained a dozen or more city-states, each ruled by its own king and worshiped its own patron deity. The citizens of these city-states were classified into three classes: nobles and priests, commoners, and slaves. In the center of a

Mesopotamia was the land between two rivers, and it was part of the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent was a large arc of rich farmland, that goes from the Gulf of Persia to The Mediterranean Sea. Mesopotamia was a very fertile land that was perfect for farming, so opposing civilizations wanted control of this fertile land. This land referred to was fought for by three civilizations and, each took Mesopotamia within different time frames. When they did not have control of this land, they would all fight against the others to get it. The civilizations were the Sumerians, the Akkadians, and the Chaldeans. The Sumerians were the first civilization in Mesopotamia, just below the Akkadians, and the Chaldeans were not from Mesopotamia, they came from the Syrian Desert. There was another group of people, not within Mesopotamia, but in the Fertile Crescent, and they were called the Phoenicians.

Sumer was the first civilization in a region called Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means “between the rivers” because it had two major rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates River Valley. Its advanced cities were Uruk, Umma and Ur and they densely populated with about 50,000 people. Its form of record keeping was cuneiform where a scribe would write down records of business transactions, barters, historical events customs and traditions in soft clay with a stylus. Advanced technology included irrigation, a system that brought water to crops, metalworking and the invention of the wheel plow and sail boat as well as the creation on bronze weapons and armor. Their workers included farmers, artisans and scribes and their complex intuitions included a formal

This “land between two rivers” held a crucial fragment of countless civilizations that came to fruit after its downfall equivalent to Egypt, Greece and the empire of all empires, Rome. Prominent from 3,500 BCE and 2,300 BCE Sumerian culture flourished in endeavors. According to historical text, this civilization of Mesopotamia became the first to institute and organized religion with temples, priests, and creation stories of “the great flood.” Along with religion, a system of government became instituted to hold each city-state or region under a form of law. The government in these times consisted of a kingship of sorts, where a supreme ruler took control of law creation, enforcement, and punishment—which is similar to the monarch system in modern society. In addition to religion and government, inventions of mathematics, education tactics, and trade networks also came to fruit in Ancient Sumerian society (Cole 7-10).

Sumerian written history can be dated back to 5300-4100 BC, however the historical remains seems to remain obscure up until the Early Dynastic Period III. After the Sumerian Civilization was established, grew, and expanded greatly, various

The rulers of the Sumerian people wanted to create a fair and steady society that was rich in modern culture. Gilgamesh, who ruled around 2700 BCE at Ur, is the most inspirational king of the Sumerian people. Ur was one of the thirty or more cities of Sumer. He was very heroic and his adventures were later put into a poem called The Epic of Gilgamesh. Urukagina was the leader that followed Gilgamesh. Reforming law codes and revitalizing the economy was the things that Urukagina was known for during his rule of Sumer. The Sumerian people were successful, but the successors of Urukagina were unable to maintain the power for the Sumerian people. This caused the Sumerian people to become easy prey to the Akkadian people of northern Mesopotamia (Matthews, Nobel, & Platt, 2014).

The rivers and land were in both Sumer and Mesopotamia, a big part of the development of their views on religion. Mesopotamia was known as the land between two rivers because they were surrounded by the Euphrates and Tigris River. Annually the rivers would flood fertilizing Sumer’s land. Sumerians took advantage of the floods to help fertilize their land but also knew that when big floods occurred the gods were sending a punishment of their wrong doings.

Epic of Gilgamesh was found in Mesopotamia land between two rivers Tiger and Euphrates. Sumerians not only invented city- states, but also first written language cuneiform which used by every Mesopotamian culture. Cuneiform symbols written in phonetic way like Egyptian did. Epic of Gilgamesh was found in twelve stone tablets, which made them one epic poem. Sumerian civilization were polytheistic believers who worship for many gods like rest of the western civilization.

The cradle of civilization is Mesopotamia. Why, you might ask? This week, you will discover the reasons. You will understand the characteristics of civilization and the process of its emergence. You will also demonstrate knowledge of the major characteristics of civilization and the process of its emergence.

This new written langue used wedges and dash marks that were pressed into clay tablets with a stylus. This first style of writing was pictographic in nature, sharing very similarities to the early hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Over a few centuries this style of writing evolved to phonograms, or symbols relating to spoken words, and became what is known today as Cuneiform. “We should think in terms of writing as a gradual process, accomplished over a wide area rather than the result of a single Sumerian genius.” Sumerians used cuneiform to keep track of crops, livestock, trade, and even to write literature. The Sumerian Kings List, a large stone tablet that was written in Cuneiform documents