Mesopotamia and the Persian Empire

Arid plains of Tigris River

Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamian Urn – a terra cotta was used
to bury their dead
Ziggurat at Ur (70 ft. high)
Kingdom of Babylonia
King Hammurabi
Assyrian kingdom
Cuneiform – 4,000 years ago
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Tigris River, Iraq
Nile River, Egypt
Nile River as source of
electricity
Crossing the Sudanese Nile
Nile Crocodile -20 feet
Nile Delta
The Nile River exits in Lake Victoria in Jinjia,
Uganda
Village in the Nile Sudan
Fishing the White Nile of Sudan
Boats in the Nile River Sudan
Cairo, Egypt- the capital and largest city
Farming in the Nile Delta
Dam in the Nile River
Egyptian Pyramids- the biggest is from
Giza
Egyptian Mummy
Pyramid of Khafre in Giza
THE GREAT PYRAMID built by King Khufu
Refer to encarta
Egyptian Archaeological Dig near at Giza