Mesopotmian Civilization.

Introduction The people of Mespotmia used to live in houses made of solid bricks made of solid clay.This Mesopotamia civilisation ,is also known as the summerian civilisation ever recorded in human history.The name human history The name mesopotmia is derived from greek words mesos meaning middle and potmos meaning river.Mesopotamia is located between euphrates and Tigris now part of Iraq.The civilization is known for its for its prosperity,urbanlife,vast literature,mathematics and astronomy.A long summerian epic poem about ernmerker,one of the early rulers of Uruk,Describes the city life, trade and writings and achievements here.

Summerian Civilization Mesopotmian or summerian civilisation is the old civilization in the world.Its time is believed to be 3500 years before christ.Historians believe that summerians had close trade reletions with India and china.According to historian Langdon, if seen carefully,The script and seals of Mohenjodaro civilization are similar to summerian script and seals.The urbanized south land was called summer and akkad and first known language was summerian.It was gradually replaced by akkadians around 2400BC with the arrival of akkidian speakers.The summerians of akkidians also 2400 BC with the arrival of akkidian speakers.The summers was also called believers and pagans.They also built temples and worshipped them by installing idols of their favourite deities in them. Features of Mespotmian Civilization

Mesopotmia's greatest legacy to the world is scholarly tradition time caluculation and mathematics. Around 1800 BCE there are multiplication and division tables,square and square root tables of compound interest.1+24/60+51/602+10/603.In the field of mathematics they were first to discover the signs of 1,10 and 100.They also achieved achievement in the field of astronomy and had detected the planets Mercury,venus,mars,jupiter and saturn.They also divided the constellations of the sky into 12 zodiacs and named them.They had also prepared an alamanac and found out the causes lunar ecilipse and solar ecilipse.They also invented the sunclock to see the time.The summerian,Babylonian and assyrian civilization developed under mesopotmian civilization.The people of mesopatmia used wheat and barley bread,Milk curd ,butter,fruit etc. in their food and made flour,sugar and wine for drinking from dates.They also consumed meat and fish.There were clothes made of clothes made of cotton,wool and sheep skin.The drains made to remove the dirty water of the houses were similar to the cities of Mohenjodaro and Harrappa.The people here made coins for transactions and trade and invented many types of weights for measuring and weighing.The greatest gift given to the world by mesopotmian civilisation was cunieform script.There were more than 250 words in this script.Initially their script was based on pictures , which later became based on sound.Reed peen was became based on sound.Reed peen was used on soft clay tablets for writing.Evidence of this has been found during the excavation of Nineveh.On which stories,epics,songs and relegions sermons are compiled.