Brennan+Mesopotamia

  Mesopotamia Notes    __Location: __
 *  between persian gulf and Mederteranian sea

  __Geography:__
 *  curvey
 *  Flat & swampy
 *  Rich soil (silt)
 *  Fertile Cresent
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Desert climate
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">mesopotamia means "land between the rivers"

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #f906c8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">__Economy/Agriculture:__ >        <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="color: #f906c8; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">__Time Period:__
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">traded grain cloth      <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">received stone, wood, and metal          <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">grew wheat and barley          <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  exchanged ideas through trade
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">2500 BC
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">4500 BC people began to farm
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">6508 years ago

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">     __Enviromental Challenges:__
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">unpredictable flooding
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">defence less
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">no natural barriers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">limited natural resources
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">not a lot of building material

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  __War/Milatary:__
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">built city walls
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">hard to defend

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  __Institutions:__
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">City-State: independent self governing city surrounded by farm land

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  __Religion:__
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">polytheism
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">gods controlled nature
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">died and went to no mans land (yucky place)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">gave offerings to gods

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> __ Architecture: __
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> ziggarat[[image:Ziggurat-sml.jpg width="64" height="64"]]
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> arches[[image:3034adb616a18582.jpg width="64" height="64"]]
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> ramps[[image:http://www.southwestmedical.com/AB1588000Store/featured/images/wheelchair-ramp.jpg]]
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> columns[[image:http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_iZ6TNJphQB2oajzbkF/SIG=12je5var0/EXP=1228225305/**http%3A//www.foammasters.net/images/columns/COLUMNS_GROUP4_TN.jpg width="80" height="56"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">pyramids[[image:http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_jF6TNJoxQBCvCjzbkF/SIG=12jva1jii/EXP=1228225349/**http%3A//www.pinktruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/pyramid.jpg width="123" height="81"]]

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">Literature: <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">     <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">       <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">    <span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">gives us information on how they might have lived
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">     <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">    story is similar to the Noahs ark ledgend (flood)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">     <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">       <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">    <span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">   Epic of gilgamesh

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> Social Class:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">   top: Kings, land owners, priests
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  next: wealthy merchants
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  next: ordinary people who work in fields or shops
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  lowest level: slaves

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> __ Womens Rights: __
 * women could be merchants, farmers, or artisans
 * women could own property
 * women could be priests
 * some upper class women could learn to read and write to become scribes

__ Technology: __
 * inventions: wheel, plow, bronze, sail
 * needed math to plan and build
 * anthenic and geometry
 * architecture: arches, ramps, pyrimads
 * writing cuneiform (on clay tablets)

__ Important People: __
 * Sargon-conquerer (created 1st empire)
 * Sumer (adopted and spread culture)
 * humnurabi leader of babylonian empire
 * known for code of law

__ Government: __
 * controlled by priests
 * during war men chose the leader
 * Hammurabi's code of law

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> Kellie B