Name of Time Location Achievements Leadership Culture News/ Noteworthy Civilization Period Example: Southeastern - invent writing (Cuneiform) - wrote the Epic of - Important cities in Sumer = - developed mathematics Gilgamesh Ur and Uruk Sumerians 3300 B.C. Mesopotamia and Astronomy - Polytheistic Religion - inspired civilizations Between Tigris - used irrigation to control -social such as Assyrians & hierarchy & & Euphrates river flooding Babylonians hereditary rule Old Babylonians (Amorites) – Hittites Assyrians New Babylonians (Chaldeans) Phoenicians
Name of Civilization Time Period Location Achievements Leadership Culture News/ Noteworthy Example: Sumerians 3300 B.C. Southeastern Mesopotamia Between Tigris & Euphrates - invent writing (Cuneiform) - developed mathematics and Astronomy - used irrigation to control river flooding - wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh - Polytheistic Religion -social hierarchy & hereditary rule - Important cities in Sumer = Ur and Uruk - inspired civilizations such as Assyrians & Babylonians Old Babylonians – (Amorites) Hittites Assyrians New Babylonians (Chaldeans) Phoenicians