Physical-
The physical characteristics include rich farm land, Tigris and Euphrates River, grazing land, green felids, and forests. The animals native to Mesopotamia include sheep and goats, wild horses, wild dogs, gazelle, and donkeys. The
climate is mainly warm and dry.
Human-
The people believed in polytheism and they had over 1,000 deities. Some included An/Anu the supreme sky god. Adad was the storm god and he had many assistants. Ianna is the goddess of fertility. There were also many minor gods including the god of ditches and the god of sheep.
Sumer was the first advanced civilization. They developed city states which are cities with their own laws and government leaders. Basically a mix between a city and a state. The Sumerians developed the first wheel, cart, wagon, plow, sewer system, better weapons, and medical advancements. They discovered diagnostics in medicine. They were also creative in the arts by writing epics, and creating music with reed pipes, drums and strings. They had a writing system called cuneiform which was pictures that represented words. Their language was Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Phoenician, Semitic, and Sumerian.
In their social hierarchy was:
Priests
Warriors
Herders, merchant, crafts
people
Farmers, servant, laborer,
Slaves
Women were considered less than men.
The physical characteristics include rich farm land, Tigris and Euphrates River, grazing land, green felids, and forests. The animals native to Mesopotamia include sheep and goats, wild horses, wild dogs, gazelle, and donkeys. The
climate is mainly warm and dry.
Human-
The people believed in polytheism and they had over 1,000 deities. Some included An/Anu the supreme sky god. Adad was the storm god and he had many assistants. Ianna is the goddess of fertility. There were also many minor gods including the god of ditches and the god of sheep.
Sumer was the first advanced civilization. They developed city states which are cities with their own laws and government leaders. Basically a mix between a city and a state. The Sumerians developed the first wheel, cart, wagon, plow, sewer system, better weapons, and medical advancements. They discovered diagnostics in medicine. They were also creative in the arts by writing epics, and creating music with reed pipes, drums and strings. They had a writing system called cuneiform which was pictures that represented words. Their language was Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Phoenician, Semitic, and Sumerian.
In their social hierarchy was:
Priests
Warriors
Herders, merchant, crafts
people
Farmers, servant, laborer,
Slaves
Women were considered less than men.