Mesopotamia Cradle Of Civilization

Mesopotamia was formed in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Thus making it a fertile valley, where the early Mesopotamians invented irrigation, so they could water their crops easily. They also worked on a barter system and used the grain and their goats to give and get something back. In the early writings of the Mesopotamian people a lot of what was wrote about had to do with this system of bartering. Mesopotamia was known as the “cradle of civilization” because a lot of what we know today was formed there. The rise of the cities there was due to the flow of water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, things could be exported easily, and the people invented the sailboats to get their commodities to and from places.

There were farms with agriculture, and with that came common tools, and irrigations. Then people would help harvest the grain and take it to the cities store houses and they would use it to barter. Then eventually, governments were formed and a percentage of the grain would be set aside as a tax for the government, which would later be for the kings of the kingdoms. People had to work hard back then for their food, and they found out more hands helping to produce food was better being that they had to irrigate the water from the two

The beginning of the world, they believed, was a victory by the gods over the forces of chaos but, even though the gods had won, this did not mean chaos could not come again. Through daily rituals, attention to the deities, proper funeral practices, and simple civic duty, the people of Mesopotamia felt they helped maintain balance in the world and kept the forces of chaos and destruction at bay. Along with expectations that one would honor one’s elders and treat people with respect, the citizens of the land were also to honor the gods through the jobs they performed every day.”