By: Viktoria Kaim, Kelly Owenya, Jenna Smallman-Bell

The Mesopotamian lived between 5000-3500 BC; It was believed that the larger civilizations began to grow in Mesopotamia between 4,000 and 3,000 B.C.E because of the Semitic and Indo-European groups coming into the region.
The Mesopotamian were inventors, the Sumerians were advanced with technological. One of the most important thing the Sumerians did was that they learned to build levees. This helped to control the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They now had a stable year-round water supply., making them wait no longer on the yearly floods.
One of the other most important contributions was the first system of writing. Writing was developed so that records could be kept by the city-states. …show more content…
Around 3.3-5 million people made up the population of Assyria. Usually, Mesopotamian commoner lived to be on the city walls. A day’s work for the commoners began early. For their jobs consisted of farmers, soldiers, brick makers, carpenters, fishermen, bakers, tradesmen, stone carvers, potters and leather workers. For the nobles, they were involved with administration and city bureaucracy and hardly worked with their hands. The men wore kilt-like skirts that went down to their ankles or a long robe. The woman wore long robes draped to leave the shoulders visible. Poorer people could only afford wool, the wealthier wore linen, which is a much lighter fabric for the hot weather.
Mesopotamia, an ancient Greek term meaning "the land between rivers," or "the land between the two rivers". For the location of the ancient Mesopotamia is the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The region stretched from modern-day Kuwait and Iraq northward to Turkey. And there were two major rivers in the region; the Tigris and Euphrates. These two provided a source of water for all the farming they did. The land was flat with few mountains and fertile soil with little rain. The area was also known as the Fertile