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Title With Picture LayoutARCHITECTURE Introduction .. WHAT is Mesopotamia ?? In Greek, Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between two great rivers
Euphrates. applied to Lecture 8 Mesopotamia
and Euphrates rivers. dominant physical feature rivers? cultures flourished and period Sumerian Akkadian Babylonian Assyrian INFLUENCES … Geographical • Lack of natural barriers cities for protection Historical - Principles - Characteristics
around 4500 BC with the rise of the Sumerian civilization of writing were Kish, Uruk and Ur • Mud was their building material • Mud was formed into brick, sun dried and built into massive walls monuments of Sumerian cities Ziggurat of Urnammu, UR ..