Mesopotamia Definitions

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Mesopotamia Definitions
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• Mesopotamia
• Natural Levees
• Cuneiform
• Ziggurat
• Sumerians
• King Hammurabi
• Assyrians
• Polytheist

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• Mesopotamia land between two rivers, an area
  between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where
  humans first abandoned their nomadic lifestyle
  and began to form permanent settlements.

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• Natural Levees embankments produced by the
  build-up of sediment over thousands of years of
  flooding.

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• Cuneiform Written language of the Sumerians
  called cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped. Worlds
  first writing.

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• Ziggurat stack of platforms decreasing in size
  upwards, resembling a step pyramids, with a small
  chapel at the top.

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• Polytheist - A person who believes in or
  worships more than one god.

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• Sumerians first to develop writing and large
  social organizations.

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• King Hammurabi Established Babylon as the
  leading power in Mesopotamia by conquering Akkad
  and Assyrian, gaining control of both the north
  and south.

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• Assyrians Reunited Mesopotamia under
  Assurbanipal II, with the best army in the Near
  East. Established the first true empire the
  world has ever seen.