Mesopotamia

Geography

Fertile Crescent in middle

Meaning of Mesopotamia

"land between two rivers"

Which two rivers does it lie between?

The Tigris and Euphrates river

Government

independent cities with their own government

kings ruled with the “support” of the gods

Religon

Polythetic and built ziggats

writing

from pictographs to cuneiform, recorded myths, laws, treaties, and business contractions

scribes - education focused on writing

first epic story of Gilgamesh

cultural diffusion

trade as far as Egypt with other groups in South West Asia