Civilization in Mesopotamia
Class, Power and War among the Sumerians | Sumerian Polytheism, Sin and a Flood | Sargon, Sumerians and Babylon | Sumerian Culture and Hammurabi at Babylon | Arrival of Hittites, Hurrians and Kassites |Hittites, Asyrians and Aramaens | Babylonian Science and the Gods | Babylonian Myths of Creation and a GrThe Story Begins:
The story begins with Epi-Paleolithic hunters developing a new awareness of their environment and its food resources, both plant and animal. Even before the beginning of the Holocene, circa 8000 BC, some of these groups had started to experiment with the planting of crops – the first steps toward agriculture, and the domestication of some animals. The Neolithic, the period of early farming, had begun.
he two best known groups are the Levanto-Aurignacian (25,000 – 18,000 BC) in the Levant and the Baradostian (34,000 – 20,000 BC) of the Zagros Mountains of western Iran.
Distinctive Upper Paleolithic stone industries of blade and burin type used by Homo sapiens for the manufacture of weapons as well as for various household objects in stone, bone, antler, wood and other perishable materials have been recognized in caves or open sites in various regions of the Near East.eat Flood
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