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The Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamia
The Land Between the Rivers
Focus Question: Mesopotamia
Where was it?
What were its resources?
What is the “problem” when studying it?
Why study Mesopotamia?
The River Valley of Mesopotamia
Natural resources
What modern countries does Mesopotamia occupy?
Archaeological Sites of Mesopotamia
Civilizations of
Mesopotamia
Although we often speak of Mesopotamia as one civilization and culture it must be noted that it represents several (Sumer, Akkadia, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea)
The problem...
Fortified cities of UR
Hammurabi
King Sargon
Hanging Gardens
Tower of
Babel
Cuneiform Writing
Assyrian Warrior
Warfare
The EndAs we can see, Mesopotamia was a “great” society!
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