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• Near a river
• in a temperate climate
• on arable land
• abundance of food
Mesopotamia is a region, not a country.
Refers to the individual Peoples that made up
Mesopotamia; the Sumerians, Akkadians,
Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and to some degree
the Hittites, Phoenicians and Persians
Achievements:
• Code of Laws – Hammurabi’s Code
• Writing – Cuneiform
• System for calculating time and
angles based on 60 – sexagesimal
system
Harappa & Mohenjo Daro Civilizations make up the Indus
River Valley Civilization
Achievements:
• Town planning – grid system for roads
• sanitation system – covered drains
• water from wells
• grainaries, docks, and warehouses
• uniform weights and measurements
• copper, bronze, lead, and tin
Achievements:
• mathematic advances
•reliable farming with irrigation
• engineering, mining, and plumbing
• pyramids
• medical - cures for diarrhea, burns,
indigestion, cataracts, surgery, and
mummification
• papyrus paper and hieroglyphics
Achievements:
• wheel barrow, horse harness, row
cultivation, and plow
• water chain pump (water goes up)
• metal casting
• Su Song’s mechanical clock –
water-driven astronomical clock
• crossbow, rudder, gas lamp, block printing,
abacus, paper, porcelain, silk, kites, playing
cards
What other things spread?
• Disease
• Language
• Food
• Religion
• Ideas
• Inventions
• culture