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    Mesopotamia

    The “Fertile Crescent”


    Mesopotamia
    Environmental
    challenges
    and
    solutions
    Environmental
    challenges
    and
    solutions

    City-states
    Sumerian Social Hierarchy

    King
    Priests (General)

    Generals Priests

    Commoners Commoners

    Slaves Slaves
    Sumerian Religion
    • Polytheistic
     Enlil
    • Anthropomorphic
    • Pessimistic
    Sumerian Culture
    • Literature
    – Epic of Gilgamesh
    • Mathematics
    • Engineering
    Akkadian Empire

    Sargon of Akkad
    (r. 2371-2316 BC)
    Babylonian (Amorite) Empire

    Hammurabi
    (r. 1792-1750 BC)

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