Mesopotamia And Sumer Powerpoint

The First Civilizations Mesopotamia &Sumer Babylonia & Assyria

Mesopotamia ✏ Meaning:

“Land between two Rivers” ✏ Location: Plain between Tigris R. and Euphrates R. ✏ 5000 B.C. -Agricultural Revolution spread to Mesopotamia

Sumer AKKAD = the Northern part of Babylonia SUMER= the Southernmost part of Babylonia and the river delta. ✏ FERTILE CRESCENT = Curved land area extending from the Persian Gulf along the Tigris-Euphrates to Mediterranean and Southward along its shores to the Isthmus of Suez ✏ ✏

What is a Civilization a culture that is complex and has urban life ✏ has specialists for political, social, economic and religious needs. ✏ Has a system of writing ✏ Has monumental architecture ✏ Art-beyond decorative = man and his activities- generates pride ✏

Religion POLYTHEISTIC- worshipped more than one god. - represented the forces of nature ✏ ANU- lord of the heavens (sky) ✏ ENLIL- god of air and storms ✏ EA- god of waters ( floods) ✏ KI- god of earth and assister at births ✏ INANNA- god of love and war ✏

Sumerian govt. CITY-STATE= a town or city and the land that surrounds it governed as an independent nation. ✏ THEOCRACY= city owned by the gods and the priests run the government for the gods ✏ much rivalry between city states- wars ✏ failed to unite into one nation ✏

✏ World’s

Akkadian Empire 2500-2200 B.C.

First Empire ✏ SARGON I of Akkad- 1st Emperor ✏ Spoke Semitic language like Arabic & Hebrew ✏ Capital City was Akkad ✏ Adopted Sumerian culture