- sumer, between the tigus and Euphrates river
- present-day fertile crescent is Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Syria
- population increase due to irrigation
- cities and towns were founded some with 40,000 people
- better food storage
- priests, tradesman, artisan, politicians, farmers
- king's emerged, along with dynasties and city-states
- sumerians invented the earliest form of writing know as cuneiform
- sumerian gods and goddesses emerged with powers that representing the natural elements of the world
- world's first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" which told of the great flood
- sumerians organized the calendar, divided hour into 60 minutes, into 60 seconds etc.
- Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth
Friday, February 15, 2019
from prehistory to civilization part 2
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