is a period about Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters and The people of Mesopotamia believed that their world was controlled by gods and goddesses, demons and monsters. There were hundreds of gods who were responsible for everything in the world, from rivers and trees to making bread and pottery. Each city was protected byitsownspecialgodorgoddessandtheirfamily.Largetempleswerebuilt in thecentre of thecityforthesegodsto live in .Demons were created by the gods with human bodies and animal or bird heads. They could be either evil or good. Monsters were a mixture of animals and birds. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning ‘between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. The ‘two rivers’ of the name referred to the Tigris and theEuphratesriversandthelandwasknown as ‘Al-Jazirah ‘(theisland) bytheArabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began