state in 5 points the reasons of decline of the Mesopotamian civilization?
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Explanation:
Mesopotamia was known as the land between the two rivers , the tigris to the north and Euphrates to the south. Mesopotamia existed 3000 years before it ended . Historians attribute many reason for the fall of mesopotamians .
The two main causes of the decline of this civilisation is
1. War
2. Faulty irrigation system
Mesopotamia's life style was destroyed by war . The different city states were fighting for the control of each others land and would wage all out conflicts among each other to gain territory . They mostly fought for farm lands and would wage all out conflicts among each other to gain territory .
Another important observation is that irrigation techniques are also one of the chief reason for decline of empire . The river were higher than the surrounding plains because of built up silt in the river beds , so the water for irrigation flowed into the fields by gravity. Once water was into the fields it could not drain away easily because the fields were lower than the rivers .
As the water evaporated , it not only lefts its dissolved mineral salts behind , but also drew salts upwards from the lower levels of soil . By 2300 B.C. agricultural economy of the mesopotamians began to shatter as the soil could no longer support plantation .
The same technique which made the farming possible at some point of time , prevent it during later period of time
Answer:
Babylonian culture is considered to have ended under Persian rule, following a slow decline of use in cuneiform and other cultural hallmarks.By the time the Alexander the great conquered the Persian Empire in 331 Most of the great cities of Mesopotamia no longer exsited and the culture had been long overtaken