Mesopotamian Civilization Essay

When the first versions of ourselves appear between seven and six million years ago in the southern and eastern parts of Africa we brought a small era of human life into the world. When I say small I mean it compared to the universe. We only started to make and use simple tools 3.4 million years ago. Our early stages we were hunters and gatherers but then we planted crops because of the growing population. We only first develop International crop planting in 9000 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent. Then in 3800 B.C.E, we created our first city Uruk which was the beginning of Mesopotamian civilization the first human civilization in history. We also around this time creating writing in cuneiform and schools but they had already seen women as a lesser being with the slave women term meant for women prisoners of war. Also at this time wanted to find answers and meaning and to finding these we created a religion. At this time in Mesopotamian, we believe the world was controlled by many gods, not just one. As people come together there can be conflicts within their society causing the creation of order. Around 2100 B.C.E. in Babylon king,

They created two writing systems the hieroglyphics and hieratic. Their marriages were business arrangements and having sons was a high priority once again putting men on a higher pedestal than a woman. Around 1200 B.C.E. Egypt began to decline but also at that time a significant development began to spread it was iron technology. One of the groups of people who emerged after Egypt's collapse was the Hebrews. The created a new form of religion compared to those before it. It was a monotheism the belief in a god called Yahweh. In the late 600 B.C.E., they wrote down their religious beliefs and history that create the Hebrew Bible, which became adoptive into the Old Testament by Christians and it created the Jewish