Mesopotamia
Emergence of Native
Empire
(Group 2)
Cristobal, Lorraine
Laxamana, Chelsi
Nato, Joie
Remigion, Lyndon
Sambat, Ezekiel
Sta. Romana, Catherine
Mesopotamia
5000 BCE-600 BCE
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the
Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what
Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile
Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.
Lasted for approximately 3000 years.
Its people were the first to irrigate fields, devised a system of writing, developed mathematics, invented the wheel and learned to work with metal.
The Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millennium
BCE:
• the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today
• and the invention of writing (although writing is also known to have developed in Egypt, in the
Indus Valley, in China, and to have taken form independently in Mesoamerica).
History of Mesopotamia
Over the centuries, many different people lived in this area creating a collection of independent states:
• Sumer- southern part (3500-2000 BCE)
• Akkad- northern part (2340-2180 BCE)
• Babylonia- these two regions were unified (1830-1500 BCE and 650-500 BCE)
• Assyria- Assyrian Empire (1100-612 BCE)
Jobs
Men and women both worked, and “because ancient Mesopotamia was fundamentally an agrarian society, the principal occupations were growing crops and raising livestock” (Bert man, 274). Other occupations included those of the scribe, the healer, artisan, weaver, potter, shoemaker, fisherman, teacher, and priest or priestess.
Geographic Conditions
Little rainfall
Hot and dry climate windstorms leaving muddy river valleys in winter catastrophic flooding of the rivers in spring
Arid soil containing little minerals
No stone or timber resources
Religion
Empire
(Group 2)
Cristobal, Lorraine
Laxamana, Chelsi
Nato, Joie
Remigion, Lyndon
Sambat, Ezekiel
Sta. Romana, Catherine
Mesopotamia
5000 BCE-600 BCE
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the
Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what
Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile
Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.
Lasted for approximately 3000 years.
Its people were the first to irrigate fields, devised a system of writing, developed mathematics, invented the wheel and learned to work with metal.
The Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” primarily because of two developments that occurred there, in the region of Sumer, in the 4th millennium
BCE:
• the rise of the city as we recognize that entity today
• and the invention of writing (although writing is also known to have developed in Egypt, in the
Indus Valley, in China, and to have taken form independently in Mesoamerica).
History of Mesopotamia
Over the centuries, many different people lived in this area creating a collection of independent states:
• Sumer- southern part (3500-2000 BCE)
• Akkad- northern part (2340-2180 BCE)
• Babylonia- these two regions were unified (1830-1500 BCE and 650-500 BCE)
• Assyria- Assyrian Empire (1100-612 BCE)
Jobs
Men and women both worked, and “because ancient Mesopotamia was fundamentally an agrarian society, the principal occupations were growing crops and raising livestock” (Bert man, 274). Other occupations included those of the scribe, the healer, artisan, weaver, potter, shoemaker, fisherman, teacher, and priest or priestess.
Geographic Conditions
Little rainfall
Hot and dry climate windstorms leaving muddy river valleys in winter catastrophic flooding of the rivers in spring
Arid soil containing little minerals
No stone or timber resources
Religion