Mesopotamia

=Mesopotamia= =Nathan Cookman and Matt Davis= =Birth of civilization is 5000 - 330 BC= ==Mesopotamia was known as the fertile cresent. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is what made Mesopotamia possible. It is known as the crossroads of the world because Asia Africa and Europe all touch there. It is the birth of all civilization. The people of the first civilization were the Summerians, they lived where is now modern Iraq.==

==There were three main social classes. The Nobles was the richest of the rich and the highest in the social class. The Nobles were mostly royalty and priests. The next social class was the Commoners. They were the average people and wern't poor but they wern't rich. The people that made up this class were merchants, fishers, craftspeople and 90% of the Commoners were the farmers.==

==The Sumererians also discoved the first type of comunication called cuneiform. They write this on clay tablets with a stylus, a stick used to write, and would write symbols for what they were talking about. They also had schools to learn cuneiform called eddubas. There were 600 signs in cuneiform and today we only have 26 in our alphabet. The Epic of Gilgamesh was a Sumerian epic poem and could be the oldest poem ever recorded, it was writen in about 1800 BC. It exploits King Gilgamesh and is about a great flood. Some Sumerian inventions are schools, the wheel, the plow, arches, bricks, a nuber system based on 60, and time.==

3.Cyrus the Great was the king of persia and set up the persian empire.
===4.King Croesus (560 BC) his face was the first to be on coins and he was the first to use them. 5. Nebuchadnezzar was known as the "Mad Ox" was the leader of Chaldeans he defeated the Assyrians and he bebuilt Babylon.===

5. Eddubas- the schools to learn cuneiform.
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Timeline


 * 1) 5000 BC-Birth of Civilization.
 * 2) 5000 BC-Sumerians, first civilization in history.
 * 3) 3100 BC-Sumerians invented writing
 * 4) 1800 BC-Sumerian epic poem written.
 * 5) 1550 BC-Warriors from Asia Minor conquered Babylon.
 * 6) 1200 BC-Assyrians was the worlds first military power.
 * 7) 814 BC-Carthage dominated trade in the Mediterranean sea.
 * 8) 700 BC-Babylon is destroyed.
 * 9) 550 BC-Darius I was born.
 * 10) 490 BC-Battle of Marathon.

Sumerian citizen speaking of his king- "You in your judgement you are the son of Anu. Your commands, like the work of a god, cannot be reversed. Your words, like rain pouring down from heaven, are without number."