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**Matthew C Homepage** **Military/War/Defense:** **Institution:** **Religion:** **Architecture:** **Location:** **Geography:** **Economy/Agriculture:** **Time:** **Challenges:** **Literature:** **Social Classes:** **Equality (Women's Rights):** **Technology:** **Important people:** **Gov't:** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Built city walls.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Hard to defend, no natural barriers.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Men pick a leader during times of war.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Constant war between City-States.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Spread cultures.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">City-States.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Independent.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Empires; independent country City-States brought under one ruler. (Sargon created the first).
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Self Governing city including its surrounding farmland.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Babylonians invaded Mesopotamia.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Dynasty
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Series of rulers from one family.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Polytheism- belief in many gods.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Gods control nature.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">What happens after death? Go to the "Land of No Return." Gross yucky place.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Gave offerings and sacrifices to Gods.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Arches
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Ramps
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Columns
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Pyrimids
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Ziggarat- (Closest to gods); There are three things in the Ziggarat, Temple/church; Gov't around the bizzare; Grain Marketplace
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Center of city=Ziggarat
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Exchanging ideas.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Between the Persian Gulf and Med. Sea.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Tigris River and Euphrates River
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Modernday Iraq
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">South-west Asia.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Curved shape.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Flat swampy land
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Rich soil=silt
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Fertile cresant.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Desert climate.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Mesopotamia means land between the rivers.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Traded grain and cloth
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Recieved stone, wool, and metal.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Grew wheat, barley,and sarghurn.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Through trade, they exchanged ideas.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">4500B.C. people began to farm.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">3300B.C. sumer
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Unpredictable flooding.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Limited natural resources.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Little rain=desert.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">No natural barriers
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Not a lot of building materials.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Need water for crops/survival.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">built irragation ditches.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Epic of Gilgemesh
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Gives us information on how they might have lived.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Story is similar to Noah's Arc ledgend (flood)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Top Layer: Kings, land holders, and priests.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Next; Wealthy merchants.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Next; ordinary people, people who worked in the fields or workshops.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Lowest levels; Slaves, (Debt-Wars)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Women could be merchants, farmers, or artisens.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Women could own property.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Women could be priests.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Some upper class women learned to read, write, and become scribes.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">More rights than women of othyer ancient societies.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Inventions; Wheel, Plow, Bronze, and Sail,
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Needed math to plan and build things.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Arithmatic and geometry.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Base 60 (60secs = 1 min) (60 min = 1 hour) 360 degree circle.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Architecture: arches, ramps, pyramids, zig.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Writing; cuneiform (on clay tablets)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Sargon-conquered
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Sumer-adapted & spread culture
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Hammurabi-Leader of Babylonian Empire (known for code of law)
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Controlled by priests @ first.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">During war men chose a tough fighter to lead-at first control ended after war was over
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">With more frequent wars tough fighters=commanders got permenent control
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Hammurabi code of laws.