Devin+Meso

Devin __** Mesopotamia

**__ __        Location         __ __ Geography __ __Economy/Agriculture__ __Time Period__ __Challenges__ __ War/Military/Defence __ __ Institions __ __ Religion __ __ Literature __ __ Architecture __ __ Social Class __ __ Equality __ __ Technology __ __ Important People __ __ Government __
 * Between Persian Gulf and Medditerain Sea, Tigris River, and Euphrates River
 * Modern day Iraq
 * South Aisa
 * Curved shape
 * Fertile Crescent
 * Flat Swampy land
 * Rich Soil
 * Desert Climate
 * Mesopotamia means, "Land Between the Rivers"
 * Traded grain and cloth
 * Recived stone, wood, and metal
 * Grew wheat, barley, and sorghom
 * 4,500 B.C.- People began to farm
 * 3,300 B.C.- Sumer
 * Unpredictible flooding
 * No natrual barriers from enemies
 * Limited natrual resorces
 * Little rain = deasert like conditions
 * Need water for crops = built irregation ditches
 * Not very much building material
 * Built city walls
 * consistant war between city-states
 * Hard to defend due to no natrual barrier
 * Men pick a tough fighter to lead them during times of war
 * City-states independent self governing city including its surrounding farm land
 * Empiers independent country city-states brought under 1 ruler (Sargon created the first)
 * Babylonlani invaded Mesopotamia
 * Dynasty: Stories of rulers from one familey
 * Polytheism = Belief in many gods
 * Gods controled nature
 * What happens to you after death? go to the "land of no return"
 * Gave offerings and sacerfices to gods
 * Epic of gilgemesh
 * gives us information on how they **might** have lived
 * story is similar to the Noah's arch legned (flood)
 * Arches, Ramps, Columns, Pyramids
 * Ziggurats = center of acitivity, Religious, Political, Econimic, and social center of Mesopotamian culture
 * Top class: Kings, Land holder, and Preists
 * Middle class: Wealthy merchants, Ordinary people who worked in the feilds, or in the workshops
 * Lowest class: Slaves
 * (Womans rights) - woman could be merchants, farmers, or artisans
 * Woman could own property
 * Woman could be preists
 * Some upper class learned to read and writeand become scribes
 * More rights than woman in many other ancient socities
 * Invensions, Wheel, Plow, and Sail
 * Needed math to plan and build things
 * Anthmetic and geometry
 * Base 60 (60 sec. = 1 min.) (60 min. = 1 hr.)
 * 360 degree circle
 * Architecture, Arches, Ramps, Pyramids, Ziggurats, Writing cuniform (on clay tablets)
 * Sargon - conqured
 * Sumer (adapted and spread culture)
 * Hammurotoi leader of Babylonian empire (Known for code of law)
 * Controled by Preists at first
 * During war men chose a tough fighter to lead
 * At first control ended after the war was over
 * With more frequent wars tough fighters = commanders got permanent control
 * Hammurotoi's code of law