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Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia
Barbara A. Somervill
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Description for Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the site of the world's first stable civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. This title details the development of this area, the growth of its city-states, the daily life of its people, and how their influence is still felt today. Series: Great Empires of the Past. Num Pages: 152 pages, full-colour photographs & illustrations, maps, sidebars, chronology, bibliography, furthe. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; YQH. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 188 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the site of the world's first stable civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. As people settled permanently along the Fertile Crescent, they built irrigation systems to bring water to crops and constructed levees as protection against the flooding rivers. For the first time, humans had some control over the natural world around them, providing them with the stability and time needed to develop governments, religion, and legendary heroes such as Gilgamesh. As various city-states sprang up along the rivers, the first trade routes were laid among them. Cuneiform, the ... Read more
Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the site of the world's first stable civilizations, including Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria. As people settled permanently along the Fertile Crescent, they built irrigation systems to bring water to crops and constructed levees as protection against the flooding rivers. For the first time, humans had some control over the natural world around them, providing them with the stability and time needed to develop governments, religion, and legendary heroes such as Gilgamesh. As various city-states sprang up along the rivers, the first trade routes were laid among them. Cuneiform, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
Great Empires of the Past
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Broomall, United States
ISBN
9781604131574
SKU
V9781604131574
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About Barbara A. Somervill
Barbara A. Somervill is a professional children's nonfiction writer with more than 150 published titles. She is the author of Electrical Circuits, Plant Reproduction, and several titles on recovering animal species, as well as a series on insects and another on mammals under the pseudonym Sophie Lockwood. Somervill is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators ... Read more
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