Top 10 Shocking Facts of Mesopotamian civilization

Mesopotamia is situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates streams which merge at the Persian Gulf. The actual name is a Greek word signifying “the land between two streams.” It is in the eastern Mediterranean district and is lined by the Zagros Mountains on the northeastern side and the Arabian Plateau on the southeastern side. Mesopotamia covers cutting edge Iraq, Kuwait, portions of Saudi Arabia and portions of the Turkey-Syria and Iran-Iraq borders.

The Mesopotamian civilization dislike different civilizations like those of Egypt or Greece. Its way of life was different, and it was more similar to an exchanging or social trade point for all the progress of a similar period. It was a blend for the vast majority various civic establishments, nationalities, and religions which were all compelling during different times of history. Mesopotamia is regularly known as the support of progress.

So here are Top 10 Shocking Facts of Mesopotamian civilization!

Cursive Writing

Composing has forever been a solid approach to passing information to the future. Albeit composed texts existed in different civic establishments like the Indus Valley, Egyptian, and Greek human advancements, it was additionally vital in Mesopotamia. The main put down accounts surfaced in the fourth century BC in Sumer; this was an early type of cursive composing known as cuneiform.

The composing was named after the Latin word cuneus signifying “wedges” as the content takes a wedge-molded structure. The Sumerians used to compose with a pointer made of reed on delicate mud tablets which were then dried to frame super durable records. The earliest types of composing were pictograms or pictures to address thoughts, however as time went on, they formed into to a greater degree a perplexing calculation which was more enthusiastically to decipher.