HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fertile Crescent
Document Summary
Mesopotamia disappeared off maps after world war i, but was formally located in the. Fertile crescent which is the delta between the tigris and euphrates rivers. There is little rainfall in this region, but the over ow of the rivers would be the sole source for such fertile land. The mesopotamian civilizations were extremely diverse, while all of the diverse people were in deed part of mesopotamia, they were all so extremely different (sumerians, semites, There was a constant rise and fall of these different groups, one group would rise and be powerful and the most prominent but then would just again fall as quickly as it rose. The rst sign of a strong leader was sargon of akkad (about 2300 bce). He came in and resolved disputes but started his own again. The sumerians like the idea of a leader and allowed him to rise to a powerful, cruel leader. The mesopotamian culture showed the rst signs of civilization.
