Civilization
What are two features of a civilization?
Art, Permanent Settlements, Farming, Science, Government, Written Language, Trade, Religious beliefs.
What does Mesopotamia mean
Fertile Crescent
What was the first Civilization in the Fertile Crescent?
Sumerians
What civilization came after the Akkadians?
Babylonians
Art is a feature of civilization. What was the main type of art during the Mesopotamian civilization?
Mosaics
Around 10 000 BC, the first evidence of the first civilization include...?
Team Battle- the first team that writes down as many of the four gets the points
A transition to settled living
Farming of grains and legumes
Evidence of houses
Burial of the dead in ceremonies
What were the two rivers that made the Fertile Crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is one of the oldest surviving literary texts?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
What did the Akkadians unify about the Sumerians?
City states or Culture