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Mesopotamia Civilization Grows

Mesopotamia Civilization Grows. 1. What two rivers run through the Fertile Crescent? 2. Which two river valley civilizations are shown on this map?. Tigris & Euphrates Rivers. Egypt & Mesopotamia. 3. In what present day country is Mesopotamia located?. Iraq. Sumarian inventions.

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Mesopotamia Civilization Grows

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  1. Mesopotamia Civilization Grows

  2. 1. What two rivers run through the Fertile Crescent? 2. Which two river valley civilizations are shown on this map? Tigris & Euphrates Rivers Egypt & Mesopotamia 3. In what present day country is Mesopotamia located? Iraq

  3. Sumarian inventions

  4. Sumarian Culture

  5. Religions have attempted to build their sanctuaries on prominent heights. Since no such natural heights were available in the flat flood plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), ancient priests and kings determined to build ziggurats, square or rectangular artificial stepped temple platforms. Functionally, temples were placed on raised platforms to give them prominence over other buildings in a city, and to allow more people to watch the services performed at the temple. Symbolically, however, the ziggurat represents the cosmic mountain on which the gods dwell. The priests ascent up the stairway to the temple at the top of the ziggurat represents the ascent to heaven. The great ziggurat at Khorsabad, for example, had seven different stages; each was painted a different color and represented the five known planets, the moon, and the sun. WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE REVEAL ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS BELIEF OF PEOPLE IN MESOPOTAMIA?

  6. ZIGGURATS

  7. BABYLONIAN ZIGGURAT

  8. *NOTES* THE MANY PEOPLE OF MESOPOTAMIA: Sumerians (ancient Sumer’s city-states) (3000 B.C. - 1800 B.C.) 2.Babylonians (Babylonian Empire) ( 1800 B.C. - 1200 B.C. Assyrians (Assyrian Empire) (1200 B.C. - 539 B.C.) 4. Persians (Persian Empire) (539 B.C. - 330 B.C.)

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