Today in class we took more notes off off the powerpoint. The title of this slide was "The Earliest Cities: Mesopotamia". Here are the notes: The fertile crescent now is in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq but mostly Syria and Iraq./ In Mesopotamia was the district Sumer, toward the Southeast. Sumer was situated on the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers/ With new irrigation technologies, the population size, cities and towns with up to 40,000 inhabitants were starting to emerge/ Better food storage led to the creation of other jobs, such as priests, tradesmen, artisans, politicians, and farmers/ Kings and family dynasties emerged along with the concept of "city-state"/Sumerians invented "cuneiform" which is the earliest form of writing./ Pantheon-large number (of something) of Sumerian gods and goddesses emerged/ The world's first (surviving) epic story was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh" (told of a great flood that destroyed the world, similar to the story of Noah and the Great Flood)/ Sumerians then divided an hour into sixty minutes and a minute into sixty seconds; also then an organized calendar based on the moon cycles/ The Great Ziggurat of Ur is a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth.
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