Cities

Uruk

The City Of Uruk

Drawing Of Uruk's Ziggurat

Uruk was the capital city of Mesopotamia and was ruled over by the famous Gilgamesh. It was considered one of the first cities ever created. Uruk was located in present day Iraq roughly 155 miles south of Baghdad, on the Euphrates River. It was created by King Enmerkar in 4500 BCE. Uruk is most known for the invention of writing, religion and science. Gilgamesh, the King of the city's first ruler and hero of the famous story named after him, built the walls of the city 4,700 years ago. The city walls were 5.9 miles long, 28 miles and had about 50,000 people. The city was continuously Populated from its creation until 300 CE when people began to leave the area. Uruk was abandoned in 300 CE because of the loss of resources and its fall of fame and power. (BZ)

In the 4th millennium B.C.E Ur was found by settlers who were from northern mesopotamia. The Sumerians were the first to establish civilization. Ur was a major city in Sumer. Although Ur is now situated on a flat and dry plain, Ur was once a port on the Euphrates River loaded with canals and filled with merchant ships, warehouses, and weaving factories. Located in the middle of two rivers the Tigris River and the Euphrates River, Ur had lots of resources. The water was used for not just drinking but also for plants. However, the city started to decline from around 530 BC after Babylonia fell to the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Two of Ur’s most known artifacts are the Royal Tombs of Ur and the Ziggurat of Ur. British archaeologist Leonard Wooley discovered both of these special artifacts in the late 1920s. Wooley wanted to come to Ur he sought to establish a relationship between mesopitamia civilizations and Grece of the Aegans. The Royal Tombs were found with nearly 1,800 burials. Of the 1,800 tombs 16 of them were royals such as King Meskalamdug and Queen Puabi. Besides burials, there were also lots of treasure, gold, and jewelry found.

The Ziggurat of Ur which symbolizes religious and political authority, as well as economic prosperity, was built for religious reasons. These Ziggurats were part of a temple complex that included other buildings inside. The ziggurat of Ur was used similar to our churches now.

Ur was a very important city in mesopitamia. Still today Ur is important for learning purposes and the things discovered in Ur will be appreciated forever. (EG)

Zigaraut of Ur

Royal tombs of Ur

Map of Ur

Leonard Wooley, the british arciolegist who discovered Ur's Royal tombs and Zigauraut

Babylon

The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Babylon was the largest city in the vast Babylonian empire. Founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port on the Euphrates River, the city’s ruins are located in present-day Iraq.

A new line of kings established the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which lasted from 626 B.C. to 539 B.C. The Neo-Babylonian Empire became the most powerful state in the world after defeating the Assyrians at Nineveh in 612 B.C. The King Hammurabi became king and made babylon a capital named UR. Then they became the most powerful in the region. Mesopotamia lived up to today. Robert Johann Koldewey found it on February 4 1925. (AC)

Babylon today

what we thought babylon looks like

Nineveh

Nineveh is a beautiful place, laid out in fresh streets and squares. Within Nineveh is a beautiful palace. This beautiful city is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. The road which connects the highlands of the north with the prosperous lands of Babylonia and Chaldea in the south. Close to the city you will find orchards planted with vines, fruit trees, olive groves, and more.

In Nineveh there are many things to do, including visiting important crossings for commercial routes crossing the Tigris river on the great path between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and much much more. In Nineveh they are quite religious and believed in many gods, but the main god they believed in was Ishtar. Of course not everyone in Nineveh believes in Ishtar. The reason for this is because Nineveh is huge; it takes 3 whole days just to cross the city. The reason Mesopotamia is so important, is because it was once the capital, and in it lived king Sennacherib. (CW)

This is what we think Nineveh looked like in the past. As you can see Nineveh was quite rich, the walls were lined with gold, iron, and diamonds. This shows that Nineveh was one of the richer cities.

This is Nineveh present day as you can see it is still in pretty good shape showing that it was a strong and well made city. Present day Nineveh is in Iraq instead of Mesopotamia.

Fun facts

Nineveh is still around today.

The wheel was made in Nineveh.

Lastly Nineveh believes in 3,600 gods.

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