1.) Good place to grow crops (part of the fertile crescent)

2.) Flooding of the rivers was inconsistent

    A.) made farming somewhat diffcult

3.) Their geography influenced religion.

to be countined at a later time 

4.) To help with food production they relied on the gods.

5.) Open to invaders.

1.) Each city existed as a city-state

2.) 3 civilizations or groups of cities in Mesopptima.

   1.) Sumer

   2.) Syria

   3.) Akkadians

3.) Cities were built alike

   1.) walls lined the cities

   2.) walls were lined with defense towers

4.) Withing the city the temples were the center of the people's life.

   1.) Temples were built as Ziggwrats

    2.) The people were put on the earth to do the God's work/tasks.

1.) Mesopotima was a theocracy

2.) Divine Right of Kings

3.) People were mostly farmers

4.) City-states were involved in trade

5.) The technology of the Mesopptimians allowed them to trade easier.

   A.) Invented the wheel

6.) Social Structuce

   1.) Priests

   2.) Nobles

   3.) Commoners

7.) Cuneifrom was developed

Influces of  Mesopotamia

   1.) Technology

      1.) Wheel

      2.) Sundail

      3.) Mathematical systems based on 60

      4.) built arches and domes

      5.) writing system

  2.) First civilization

  3.) First Empire: multiple places all ruled by one person ( at this time it was a man who would rule)

    a.) Sargon (First ruler in all of history)

 4.) Legal system: Code of Hammurbai

    a.) retalition or eye for an eye type deal.