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Geography-
====Mesopotamia was in between two rivers. It was East of the Mediterranean Sea, and West of Persian Gulf. More than 12,000 years ago hunter-gatherer groups moved in Mesopotamia. In the present day Mesopotamia is Iraq. People settled in Mesopotamia for two reasons, number one was because they had just discovered farming. The soil at Mesopotamia was great for farming. The second was because it was right in the middle of two rivers so they had a great supply of water. The rivers were great at times of flood. What I mean by this is the floods were a great tool to have, if the floods came the they had a supply of water for there crops and other stuff.====



Farming Techniques-
When it came to farming the floods had to be controlled. If the water came in to much the crops died. If the water came in to low the crops died. The people in Mesopotamia thought of this so they built canals in which they could control the floods. They call this irrigation.

Division of Labor-
After people started farming they had more time on there hands. They had so much time when not hunting or gathering that they could make clay pots, straw baskets, gods to worship, and jobs. They had jobs so they needed people to do them. This is how division of labor started.

Fun Facts-
There was a man named Hammurabi. Why I would ever mention him in our report you ask, Hammurabi invented something really important. If you haven't guessed already Hammurabi invented a code they call it Hammurabi's code. It's so important because it is the first set of 282 laws that they wrote down. for the Phoenicians one of there most valuable trading item was cedar. They tried to trade it but they couldn't go by land. The reason they couldn't use the land routes was because they were blocked by mountains. The Phoenicians invented the boats to trade. While the Phoenicians were trading the traders made an alphabet to communicate.

The Mesopotamian people worshiped many gods. They made a god for most of the natural elements. They made up a god for The Earth, sky, sun, moon, fresh water, salt water, and wind. They made up different kinds of gods to explain why different things happened. They worshiped a different god in each city-state. They built a ziggurat for these gods. A priest was believed to be the middle ground between human and god. Because of this they were the top of the social pyramid. There job was to keep the gods happy. They gave the gods food by burning it. They also did rituals to talk to the gods. The priest did most of the important jobs like divide the food.

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