Mesopotamia



SUMMARY:

 John Green presents the history of the first "fertile crescent" civilizations in Mesopotamia between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates around 5,000 years ago. The man chronologically talks about successive civilizations starting from the city-state Uruk. Then about the floods and invasion of nomads, founding Babylon. In turn, Babylon was taken over by the Assyrians. During the film, he mentions the traditions, inventions of the inhabitants of Mesopotamia. For example, about the invention of writing, the Hammurabi's law or about the role of gods in the world, ziggurats.


VOCABULARY ITEMS:
  • slave labor
    • I heard that in Asia some companies are working on slave labor.
  • presumption of innocence
    • We can not forget about the presumption of innocence.
  • cuneiform
    • Currently, cuneiform writing is rarely used.
  • to overestimate
    • We often overestimate what we have.
  • tool
    • I always have my tools in the garage.

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