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The crescent covered, completely (and not just by water).
Featured Reporter: Nizyrie Martinez
October 2012
VOL. 1 ISSUE 1
The Fertile Crescent
They came, they explored and they discovered this
fascinating land known as the Fertile Crescent.
Reporters interviewed local Archaeologist Nizyrie
Martinez who reported the following facts about this
fascinating early civilization.
Civilization developed as people gave up their huntergathering lifestyles and began to settle in one place. The
places they chose had many natural resources we refer
to a broad path in the Middle East as the Fertile Crescent
. This is a rich fertile growing area in a part of the
world where most of the land is too dry for farming.
The Fertile Crescent is shaped like a quarter moon. It
begins on the east shore of the Mediterranean Sea and
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ends in the Pacific Gulf.
http://www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/tigriseuphrates.php
The Fertile Crescent includes a narrow strip of land
A Brief Interview with the Archaeologist:
Q: Why do you think people settled in areas WITH
many natural resources?
A: People like to live in places where there’s lots of
damp ground for farming. And to live near a river so
animals and people get to drink water.
between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. We call this
land “Mesopotamia” because it is a Greek term that
means “between the rivers.” Many civilizations have
flourished in Mesopotamia. The first were the
Sumerians, who was replaced in turn by the Assyrian
and the Babylonia. The land between the rivers is now
part of Iraq .
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Who Was Hammurabi?
An Editorial
Dictator? Great Leader? You Decide!
King [Hammurabi] started by ruling the
city of [Babylon ] but eventually ruled all of [
Mesopotamia] Hammurabi realized that there was
a need for laws since [civilization] developed due
to the invention of [farming ] and the [hunting] of
animals. Hammurabi based his laws on those of
the [Sumerians]. Hammurabi’s laws were the
most [cruel], [harsh], and [unfair] for this time
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http://historyshortnotes.blogspot.com.es/2011/
08/code-of-hammurabi.html
period. The laws protected all people including
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[orphans ] , the [ widows] , and [slaves ]. The
Code of Laws states that [ ] should be [ ] for their
[]. Hammurabi thought that the [punishment]
Q: Hammurabi, why did you place the
should fit the [crime] Hammurabi’s code is often
tablet in a public place?
associated with the saying “An [eye] for an [eye]
A: So that everyone in Mesopotamia can see
and a tooth ] for a [tooth].” Hammurabi’s code
the rules as they pass
may seem *cruel or unfair but it was an early
attempt at justice. Hammurabi needed a way to
settle [conflicts] between [people] so everyone
could live and [work] together.
Q: Why did you feel that your laws were
fair?
A: yes because it will make people be a lot
more careful about killing others
The author thinks that the rules are unfair
because you need to include the other people’s
rights. And you would need to think about them.
Q: What does ‘the punishment must fit the
crime’ mean?
A: when people kill other they have to be
killed like they did to the other person.
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CIVILIZED…Finally?
The Sumerians: How they did it.
Why they did it.
The Sumerians began to settle in the l between the [Tigris] and [Euphrates] Rivers about [ ] years ago. They learned
that by [planting] seeds and [populating] their land, they were able to [grow] crops. The Sumerians learned to [d], or
tame [a], to help them [p] their land. They used [I], or a system of [w] crops, in order to make their land more
productive. The [S] invented the [w], which made it [p] to [p] heavy [l].
Sumerians was not a single [*nton[, but a collection of [c]-states. City-states are[n]the size of [c ]. Walls around each
city-[s ] protected [c ] from outside [I ].
The [S ] were [p ] They [b ] in many [g ]. They [w ] their [g ] at huge [z ]. Each ziggurat was [d ]to a [s ] god, whom
the [S ] believed [r ] over their [c]-state. When a[ ]r city attacked, the[ ]I would often [f] the conquered people to a their
[g]. Most [*]m people in the [W] Hemisphere are unlike the Sumerians because they believe in one [g]. People who
believe in a [*s] god are called [m]. Christianity, [I], and [J] are three [m] religious faiths that are practiced in the
Western [H].
So the Sumerians did it. They settled in the Fertile Crescent and formed one of the first TRUE civilizations. I believe
they chose this unique location to settle because…[INSERT YOUR OPINION HERE]
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