Mesopotamia+10

=** Geography: **=

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Mesopotamia is greek for land between two rivers. The two rivers are tigris and euraohes rivers witch flow near modern Iraq. Mesopotamia was a good place to live in because it was easy to farm because of its fertile creasent.======

=**City-states and Sargon**=

==**The first mesopotamian cities were build with big walls to keep intruders out. The farmers would plant there crops not far away from the outside of the cities. Mesopotamia had some special temples for gods. Those temples were called zigurrats.**==

=**Sumerians:**=

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They built permanent houses made out of sun-dried bricks made out of mud and straw.Thwy settled in mesopotamia 3500 B.C.The area they settled was called sumer. Summerians were one of the first civilazations on earth. Summerians had to deal with the tigris and eurapheos river during the summer or It'il get flooded. They would use leaves to take care of the flooding rivers. Summerians were the first to invent the first writing.======

=Hammurabi:=

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Was the first king to rule and have rules and laws. Hammurabies land was the Babylonian empire. He claimed he would bring back all the peace to mesopotamia. Hammurabi ruled a lot of cities and states, eather way he still had fair rules. Hammurabis people liked him because of his fair laws. He wrote 282 laws governing the family.======

=**Achivements:**=

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Some mesopotamian achivements were that summerians invented the first writing, the wheel, they also made small mud build houses, and they were very skilled for metal, wood, and rock carving. The wheel was for traveling like on cars. Back then they used the wheel to carry stuff eisier. They build strong mud/brick houses for shelter. They created writing to express them selves and draw or write what they saw also for communication. And they would craft wood/metal/rocks to show gods.======