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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia. Maryyanna Shuford. Mesopotamia. Isis a name for the Tigris–Euphrates region in the eastern Mediterranean, largely corresponding to Iraq , as well as northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran. Tigris.

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Mesopotamia

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  1. Mesopotamia Maryyanna Shuford

  2. Mesopotamia • Isis a name for the Tigris–Euphrates region in the eastern Mediterranean, largely corresponding to Iraq, as well as northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran.

  3. Tigris • IS the eastern member of the two great rivers that define mesopotamia along with Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of southeastern turkey through Iraq.

  4. Euphrates • IS the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia the otherbeing the Tigris which flows from Anatolia through Iraq

  5. Sargon • also known as Sargon the Great” The Great King" Akkadian Šarru-kinu, cuneiform , meaning "the true king" or "the king is legitimate", was an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC.

  6. Sumer • Land of the Lords of Brightness", Akkadian: Šumeru; possibly Biblical Shinar was a civilization and historical region in southern Iraq Mesopotamia. It is the earliest known civilization in the world and is known as the Cradle of Civilization.

  7. babylon • was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad.

  8. Ur • was a city in ancient Sumer, located at the site of modern Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.

  9. Cuneiform • is the earliest known writing system in the world.

  10. Epic of Gilgamesh • is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq and is among the earliest known works of literary writings.

  11. ziggurat • Akkadian (transliterated): ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru "to build on a raised area") were massive pyramidal temples built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

  12. Code of Hummurabi • is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi.

  13. assyrians • was a civilization centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia (Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history

  14. Tyre • is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon. There were approximately 117,000 inhabitants in 2003, however, the government of Lebanon has released only rough estimates of population numbers since 1932, so an accurate statistical accounting is not possible.

  15. Hammurabi • the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmm,u "paternal kinsman," and Rāpi, "healer"; (ca. 1728 – 1686 BC middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon

  16. Nineveh • an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq.

  17. Chaldeans • Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia • The 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC) is conventionally known as the Chaldean Dynasty

  18. Persian gulf • in the Southwest Asian region, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula

  19. THE END WORK DONE BY MARYYANNA SHUFORD THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME DONE IN MR.TRIPS CLASS

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