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Lesson Mesopotamian Civilization
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books
FACTS history is blind, literature dumb, sciences crippled,
to Understand thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books the
development of civilization would have been impossible.
They are engines of change windows on the world. They
are companies, teachers, magicians and bankers of the
treasure of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Babara W. Tuchman

Mesopotamian Civilization

Mesopotamia lies in the Middle East at present. The Mesopotamian Civilization
developed in the land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates in 4000
BCE. The word 'Mesotamia' is composed of two words 'Meso means the land and
in middle and 'Potomus' means the rivers. Hence Mesopotamia means the land
between two rivers. The modern Iraq is developed from Mesopotamia. The four
different civilization, developed in different periods under this civilization. They
were Sumerian, Babylonian Assyrian and Chaldean.
The Sumerian Civilization remained from 4000 BCE - 2000 BCE priest used to
be the supreme authority they used to be the ruler. Their main functions were
to collect revenue, run day-to-day administrative works. The Sumerian tribes
were skilled craftsmen and maintained trade relations with Egypt and India.
The priest kings used to build canals, public monuments and construct Ziggurats.
Ziggurat is a rectangular stepped tower in ancient Mesopatamia surrounded by
temples where markets, schools, banks, courts, industries, food granary, etc. were
available. The Sumerians used to live in mud houses and developed a kind of
writing.

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