Mesopotamia

Does Geography Determine Destiny?

Which is greater:
The impact of the environment on people, or people on the environment?
How does where you live affect how you live?
How does what you eat affect how you live?
What does it mean to be civilized?

Terms, Places, People

Ziggurat
city-states
Theocracy
aqueduct

As cities developed, what had a greater impact: the environment on the people or the people on the environment? How did the region impact the way people lived? In this section we will discover how civilization developed in Mesopotamia, what effect that development had on the people, and how the geography of the region impacted the people living there.