Mesopotamia The “land between the rivers” or valley between the Tigris and Euphrates.

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Mesopotamia The “land between the rivers” or valley between the Tigris and Euphrates

It is on the Eastern end of the Fertile Crescent (an arc of fertile land from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf)

Left Euphrates…right is Tigris through baghdad

The “first civilizations” of the Mesopotamian region refer to the achievements of different people over many centuries:

1. Sumer

2. Akkadians

3. Babylonians

4. Assyrians

5. Persians

Other civilizations will also be discussed in this unit Hittites Phoenicians Israelites Egyptians