World History › Section B · The first civilizations › Topic B.2
Ancient Mesopotamia
Between two unpredictable rivers grew some of the world's first cities, the earliest known writing and the first known empire, in a land the Greeks later named for its rivers. This topic follows Sumer's city-states, the invention of cuneiform, the rise and fall of empires, and the law code that lets us read their society today.
In this topic
- The land between the rivers
- Sumerian inventions
- Cuneiform: writing on clay
- Worked example: how did writing begin?
- Gods, temples and the ziggurat
- Lugals: kings by war and worship
- Sargon and the first empire
- Hammurabi and Old Babylon
- Worked example: reading a law code as evidence
- Economy, work and the afterlife
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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