World History
May 22, 2015
D-Writing Assignment: Impact of Fertile Crescent Cultures
The first civilizations ever to be recorded in History were the Fertile Crescent cultures, these cultures characterize for being near sources of water for irrigation, which means that they could grow crops for food and farm for animals and their products. All these civilizations where near the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Golf, for centuries they were called Mesopotamia. These civilizations were between two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates.
The Sumer civilization was located in southern Mesopotamia, northwestern from the Persian Gulf. The name Sumer comes from the language Akkadian and means “land of the civilized kings”, and the citizens