1. Development of Civilization in Mesopotamia

2. HUNTER / GATHERERS What characteristics describe hunter / gatherers?
What determines their location?

3. What is necessary for a people to stay in one place?

4. Development of cities

5. Where does this first happen?

6. Developed into a number of individual city states
Mesopotamia
Developed into a number of individual city states
Each one developed its own unique way of life

7. SUMERIANS

8. Ziggurat at Ur

11. CUNEIFORM

12. EMPIRE
SARGON OF AKKAD

13. Victory stele of Naram-Sin
lt illustrates the victory over the mountain people of western lran by Naram-Sin, 4th king of the Semite dynasty of Akkad, who claimed to be the universal monarch and was deified during his lifetime. He had himself depicted climbing the mountain at the head of his troops. His helmet bears the horns emblematic of divine power. Although it is worn, his face is expressive of the ideal human conqueror, a convention imposed on artists by the monarchy. The king tramples on the bodies of his enemies at the foot of a peak; above it the solar disk figures several times, and the king pays homage to it for his victory." - Louvre

14. CODIFIED LAW
HAMMURABI

15. ASTRONOMY
BABYLON

16. MERCANTILISM

17. ALPHABET

18. CRUELTY
ASSYRIA

19. BABYLON UNDER NEBUCHADNEZZAR
INSPIRATION
BABYLON UNDER NEBUCHADNEZZAR

20. BENEVOLENT WORLD DOMINATION