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Sumer was made up of independent city-states, including Ur, Uruk, Lagash, and Nippur. City states bartered for goods they needed. That means they traded goods for other goods. They also often used the rivers to transport goods quickly. The Sumer culture followed a polytheistic religion, which means they worshipped multiple gods. Sumerians used a form of writing called cuniform, which are shapes made of triangles. It was initially used to keep records, but evolved into other forms of writing.

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Faith Morrison& Meleana Boer Assyria- culture

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Faith Morrison& Meleana Boer Assyria- culture

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Assyria was a military state so they had warriors and horses (cavalry). All their weapons were made of iron. Assyria had 70 provinces and one governor for each province. Ashurbanipal made Nineveh the capital of Assyria. He also made the Library at Nineveh which was filled with cuneiform tablets. As Assyria grew it expanded throughout the Fertile Crescent.

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The Phoenician Alphabet was made so that they could replace cuneiform. It had 22 symbols. The Phoenician Alphabet didn't have vowels. One reason they did the alphabet is so they could make culture diffusion easier

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Phoenician trade Cece Clites, Jake Kinney, Danielle Neppel

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Phoenician trade Cece Clites, Jake Kinney, Danielle Neppel

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The Phoenicians had very few natural resources, so they had to trade to get the things they needed. They imported goods sold in a country that were produces elsewhere. They imported raw materials . With the raw materials they made products. They were on the edge of the mediteranean sea so it was easy to trade.

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Babylon began as a small city on the bank of the Euphrates River. It grew under a Hammurabi, a skilled military leader. They had an organized govenment with a written set of laws called the Code of Hammurabi.

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Cyrus the great conquered medes. Cyrus grew a large empire. Cyrus also conqured Lydia and Ionia. Cyrus built a large army filled with 10,000 he soldiers. He was a very cleaver leader and he knew how to conquer other empires.He decalared him self the ruler of babylon, after babaylon fell to persia. Cyrus the great was known for many things but he was not the " king of the world".

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He was the king of a city called Uruk. Gilgamish thought he was chosen by the gods. The people Uruk ask their gods for protection from their cruel king. Gilgamish and Enkidu do battle as soon as they meet. Later they became friends.Gilgamish mourns the death of Enkidu. At the end Gilgamish became abetter ruler.

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Brad Harrison and Mike Lee: Persian Culture

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Brad Harrison and Mike Lee: Persian Culture

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The Persians were all about art. They carved stones into seals, and for the first time in history made human like statutes. They used the seals to identify the owner of an object. The Persians believed in one supreme god. His name was Ahura Mazda. Their religion is called Zoroastrianism.

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Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent has fertile soil and a crescent shape. That's how it got its name. It is a wide and flat plain. The Fertile Crescent then, is modern Iraq now. It is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. After these rivers flood they recede. There are many challenges, but too much water and too much heat are the main problems.

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The Persian geography expands to the Indus Valley, Europe, & Asia Minor. It was close to the Syrian Desert, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, & Caspian Sea. It was separated into provinces. They used provinces to keep order. It also had a 1,500 mile Great Royal Road. Through 539 to 331 b.c. they were part of the Fertile Crescent

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Assyria was located north of Babylon. Even after Babylon fell, Assyrian continued. Assyria was mostly a free nation. It was a military state with the earliest cavalry. Some significant places in Assyria were the Library at Nineveh and the Hanging Gardens. The library contained cuneiform tablets with law, literature, science, and math tablets. The Hanging Gardens were elaborate gardens with stone terraces.

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Babylon began as a small city in the Euphrates. The city grew under Hammurabi, a military leader and a skilled ruler. The Hammurabi Code was a set of laws that governed life in the Babylon Empire. The Hammurabi Code contains 300 laws. Some laws in the Hammurabi Code have to do with crime, such as robbery and murder. Other laws in Hammurabi's Code dealt with private matters such as business , contracts, taxes, marriage, and divorce.

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The Persian geography expands to the Indus Valley, Europe, & Asia Minor. It was close to the Syrian Desert, the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea

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