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mesopotamia's geography, Urbanisation, Development of Writing:, legacy…
mesopotamia's geography
City life began in Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia is derived from the Greek words ‘mesos’, meaning middle, and ‘potamos’, meaning river.)
It is a flat land between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers that is now part of the Republic of Iraq.
In the north, there is a stretch of upland called a steppe, where animal herding offers people a better livelihood than agriculture
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Ur, Lagash, Kish, Uruk and Mari were some of its important cities.
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Urbanisation
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Cities and towns are develop when an economy develops in spheres other than food production that it becomes an advantage for people to cluster in towns.
Urban economies comprise besides food production, trade, manufactures and services.
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Development of Writing:
The first Mesopotamian tablets, written around 3200 BCE, contained picture-like signs and numbers.
Writing began when society needed to keep records of transactions – because in city life transactions occurred at different times, and involved many people and a variety of goods
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legacy of writing
1800 BCE are tablets with multiplication and division tables, square - square root tables, and tables of compound interest
devison of years into 12 months according to the revolution of the moon around the earth, the division of months into 4 weeks , day into 24 hours and an hour into 60 mins...
the solar and lunar eclipse was observed, their occurrence was noted according to year, month, and day
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