Thoughts and Reflections: A light that did not fail.

• Why was Mesopotamia so ethnically diverse?

Mesopotamia is ethnically diverse because the first people that set up an empire in Mesopotamia were the Assyrians, and it was Alexander the great who brought Greek cultures into the region. As a result , the cultures of Mesopotamia are defined by the long line of diverse people who have ruled this land between rivers.  Mesopotamia had many conquerors, who contributed to its culture.

• What were the the basic feature and enduring cultural values of ancient Mesopotamia civilization?

Equality of individuals before the laws of gods and men implies , furthermore , a measure of personal dignity and security. This encouragement ages in turn a sense of personal property. In Egypt , where ten Pharaoh was god and an solute master of all he surveyed , the individual technically could call nothing his own. Mesopotamia it was the natural things for ruler to pay the current price for anything he wished to acquire.

• Why did the ancient mesopotamians build their cities over and over in the same place?

The reasons are simple. The first settler would choose a site which had a good water supply and whose location was convenient for agricultural and commercial needs. The initial advantages of an environment remained attractive after the 1st town had been destroyed by fire, flood and war. But the main reason is that it was a desire to follow, wherever possible, the outlines of the  old buildings, particularly temples, in order to earn the protection of the gods and spirits that the precious town had propitiated.

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