Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia: www.costumesupercenter.com/mesopostamiaresource.html
Mesopotamia includes the
territory under control of the modern states of: Iraq, Iran, Syria and
Turkey.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_MESO.HTML
8000BC About
this time the inhabitants of Mesopotamia (centered about modern Iraq)
began us-ing distinctively shaped clay tokens- spheres, disks, cones,
cylinders, triangles, among others- to keep track of foodstuffs,
livestock, and land.
(I&I, Penzias, p.42)(V.D.-H.K.p.10)
6,200BCE The development of irrigation in Mesopotamia
at this time seems to coincide with a cool dry period.
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.114)
3,450 The first cities appeared
along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates just north of what is now
the Persian Gulf. The cities made up the Uruk culture named after the
principal city of Uruk, which corresponds to the Biblical Erech. The
culture invented writing, the lunar calendar, used metal and built
monumental architecture. The cities remained independent for almost a
thousand years.
(eawc, p.1)
c2750BC Queen Paubi lived in the city of Ur in
Mesopotamia.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A24)
2700BC The Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, ruled the city
of Uruk which had grown to a population of over 50,000. Gilgamesh was
the subject of many epics, including the Sumerian “Gilgamesh and Enkidu
in the Nether World” and the Babylonian “Epic of Gilgamesh.”
(eawc, p.1)
2130BC By this time Sumer regained its independence
from Akkadian rule but did not revert to independent city-states. Sumer
was ruled from Ur.
(eawc, p.2)
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