Mesopotamia+5

=created byEdgar,Cristian,Elyssa,Jesus= =Geography= Mesopotamia is a greek word meaning 'land between the rivers', Tigris and Euphrates, which flow through Modern Iraq. Mesopotamia is made up of different regions, each with its own geography. The geography of each area and the natural resources found there affected the ways that people lived. Southern Mesopotamia is made up of marshy areas and wide, flat, barren plains. Cities developed along the rivers which flow through the region. Most of Mesopotamia was located in the present day country of Iraq. The land of Mesopotamia was once dominated by floods, but today is mostly desert. The seasonal flooding was a challenge to the farmers of Mesopotamia. These farmers learned to control the flooding to some degree.



**City-states and Sargon**
A city state is an independent country whose terriroty consists of a city which is not part of another government. By 3000 BC, the first city-state, Uruk, had already been built, when Gilgamesh was its ruler. Uruk, Ur, Adab, Akshak, Badtibira, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, Larak, Larsa, Nippur, Sippar, and Umma were all names of city-states in Mesopotamia.

**Sumerians**
The history of Sumer, taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods.It was around 4000 BCE that a people called Sumerians moved into Mesopotamia, perhaps from around the Caspian Sea. By 3800 BCE the Sumarians had supplanted the Ubaidians and Semites in southern Mesopotamia. They built better canals for irrigating crops and for transporting crops by boat to village centers.The Sumerians. About the same time as the first Pharaohs were coming to power in Egypt, around 3100 BC, a group of people known as the Sumerians were living in the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, in West Asia. The most important Sumerian was Hummarabi.

This is the Ziggurat ==**Achievements The sumerians invented four very important tools/items, the wheel, the plow, writing, and the calendar.The sumerians had many achievements inlcuding all of those and they were the first to start out farming for the're food. They were hard workers.They worked and made useful tools. They invented the first wheel. They also learned how to control the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by building levees and irrigation canals.**==

Hammurabi
==Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon. He was also the greatest ruler in the first Babylonian dynasty. He got all of his power from his father, Sin-Muballit. He let the rulers of the cities states live and justly ruled the people with fair laws. He made a code called The Code of Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC in ancient Babylon==