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Why Mesopotamia?
Innovation, Invention and control of Enviroment
Division of Labor
City Life brings new needs
What happened to this great civilization?
100
Southern part of mesopotamia.
Where is sumer?
100
Animals were able to work for humans as helpers for farming.
What was the impact of the domestication of animals?
100
People doing different jobs so that they could have more food.
What is division of labor?
100
record keeper
What is scribe
100
Irrigation slowly poisoned
What is killing this great civilizations farming?
200
Land between tigris and euphrates river.
What is mesopotamia?
200
Plowing
What is a new farming tool?
200
extra food and more people
What is the result of great inventions?
200
Ziggurats
What is religion
200
People fight over food and land
What is killing this great civilizations?
300
Started 7000 years ago.
When did the first civilization start?
300
Irrigation by using ditches and rivers
What kind of farming was there?
300
potters, priest, farmers, builders.
What is different jobs in sumer?
300
leadership
What is rulers
300
Sargon takes over all sumerian cities.
What is taking mesopotamia to the next level?
400
close to water for drinking and farming.
Why did civilizations settle there?
400
cattle, sheep, goat for meat and milk
What animals where domesticated?
400
Division of labor, surplus of food, building of cities
What is three main things for a civilization?
400
organization and civil rights.
What is laws?
400
Hummurabi ruled Babylonians and creates new way.
who makes the beginning of laws?