This presentation shows important facts about ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia

3. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are a key part of life
in the Fertile Crescent.

4. The following are places to know.

5. After hundreds
of years of
struggle among
Mesopotamian
city-states,
Hammurabi
united much of
the region under
the control of
Babylon.

6. Hammurabi’s Code
was a set of laws
that governed life in
the Babylonian
empire.

7. This is how Nineveh may have looked like in
Ashurbanipal’s time.

8. The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in what
is now Iran, includes many detailed carvings.

9. THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON

10. Phoenician sailors steered ships full of
trade goods from Western Asia throughout
the Mediterranean region.

11. Phoenician traders developed what is perhaps
the world’s first alphabet.