1. Mesopotamiabetween the riversAlso known as the :-Fertile Crescent-Cradle of CivilizationFlooding=ideal for farming(unpredictable).Tigris & Euphrates providedideal conditions for humansettlement.Location!, Location!, Location!

2. City-StatesCITY-STATES: Cities grewup at different points along Regions/Kingdomsthe Tigris & Euphrates Sumer=Sumeriansrivers. Each city acted asstate with its own special Assyria=Assyriansgod or goddess, its ownBabylonia=Babyloniansgovernment, andeventually its own king. 3. SumerModern city(traffic jams, plumbing, merchants)Sumerian Religion- Ziggurats (ladders for gods)- Polytheism (many gods)*Unfortunately for Sumer, thewealth of the city-states becametheir downfall. They began to fighteach other over land and, Sumerian Zigguratespecially the use of the rivers.Became weak=fell to the Babylonians 4. Babylonia King Hammurabi Powerful king thatunited the cities ofSumer under oneruler. Babylonia becamea trading/militarypowerhouse. 5. Hammurabis Code What would our12 world look like 10 without laws? 8Hammurabi developed a6law system that set rules4for all to follow. 2-282 laws 0(trade, labor, property, and family)Eye for an Eye 6. If any one is committing a robbery and iscaught, then he shall be put to death. 7. If a slave says to his master: "You are notmy master," if theyconvict him his mastershall cut off his ear. 8. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and thehouse which he built fall in andkill its owner, then that buildershall be put to death. 9. If a physician make a largeincision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open atumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his handsshall be cut off. 10. AssyriaB/C they were constantlydefending themselves,the Assyrians becameskilled warriors. 11. Cuneiform Cuneiform was a writingsystem developed inMesopotamia. Scribescarved symbols into clay thathad diff. Meanings. They used cuneiform avariety of different reasons,but mostly to keep records.(sales, trades, taxes,marriages, deaths)