NEST 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kassites, Third Dynasty Of Ur, Military History Of The Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Mesopotamia: modern day iraq, name given to them by greeks meaning between two rivers. Arabian peninsula: includes modern day saudi arabia, yemen, katar. Geography: area is extremely diverse, desert, forrest, mountain chains, alluvial planes with sediment carrying rivers, diff environments impacted the settlements differently. Alluvial planes: planes with rivers running through carrying sediment that would dump on banks during ooding making the land good for cultivation. Evironmental effect on society: more marginal places rely on herding, coastal areas are big traders, desert isolates you, mespotamian foothills allowed for a lot of intermingling of people which in uenced the culture. Tigress and euphrates: source in the mountains in eastern turkey. In the north they carve through limestone, the south is atter and the banks see silty accumulation. Canals: common in southern iraq because it is so at, not enough rainfall to survive without irrigation.
