Where is the Fertile Crescent located in modern civilization?
- The Fertile Crescent is located throughout 5 countries; these being Syria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Labanon
- The district known as Sumer occupied the land between the Tigris and Euphrates river
- Population increased dramatically due to new irrigation techniques
- Cities and towns were founded, some with as many as 40,000 people
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- Better food storage allowed for diversity in professions: priests, tradesmen, artisans, polititians, farmers
- Kings emerged, as did family dynasties and the concept of the "city-state"
- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as "cuneiform"
- A pantheon of Sumerian Gods and Godesses emerged with many of the dieties representing the natural elements of the world
- The worlds first (surviving) epic was the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh", which told of a great flood
- Sumerians created the concept of hours, minutes and seconds, as well as a calender based of the mood cycle
- The Ziggurat was a Sumerian Temple built on top of a 'mountain' of Earth
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