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**//__ LOCATION: __//** Mesopotamia is located between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea, also the Tigris River and Euphrates River is located in the mondern day in Iraq. [Southwest Asia]. they curve shaped fertile cresent, it is a very swampy land and rich soil makes silt. it is a desert very hot climate.Also Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers". **//__ECONOMY / AGRICULTURE:__//** they traded grains, cloth and tools. they also recieved stone, wood and metal they grew wheat, barley and sorghom. through trade they would exchange there cultural ideas.[diffusions] In the 4,500 b.c people started farming to get their food to survive. **//__ENVIROMENTAL CHALLENGES:__//** In Mesopotamia there are unpredictable flooding. The rain makes good soil but it is bad becuase it ruins life and the crops. **//__WAR/ MILITARY / DEFENCE__//** the war and army built city walls **//__INSTITUTION:__//** The City-State is an independent self governing city including it's surrounding farm land. __**//RELIGION://** Polytheism = belief in many gods.__ **//__ARCHITECTURE:__//** The Ziggurat is a place where everything happens and it has many uses. **//__LITERATURE: epic of giblemesh__//**. **//__SOCIAl CLASS:__//** Top layer, are the kings, land holders and the preists. Next weathly merchants **__EQUALITY:__** woman could be merchants, famers and artisons. **__TECHNOLOGY:__** inventions like the wheel, plow, bronze and sail **__IMPORTANT PEOPLE:__** Sargon- conquered Sumer [adopted and spread culture] **__GOVERMENT:__** The goverment was controlled by preists at first.
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 * 3,300 b.c Sumer [city-state] Sumerians, are what the people who live in Sumer are called.
 * natural resources were limited
 * little rain =desert
 * no natural barriers were around, very defenseless, it is easy to see your emeny coming.
 * there is not that much buliding material
 * you need alot of water to survive and to grow crops and build irrigation ditches to live in.
 * constant war between city states.
 * It is very hard to defend yourself
 * It is a spread culture
 * Men pick a leader during times of war
 * The gods controlled nature
 * what happens to you after death? you go to the "land of no return."
 * the gods gave offerings and sacrifises to the gods
 * you can go there to exchange, religion,political,economic nd social ideas.
 * It gives us imformation on how they might lived.
 * The story is similar to the Noah's Ark Legend{flood}
 * women could own property
 * women could be priests
 * some woman in the upper class learned to read and write and become scribes.
 * *more rights than women are in many differnet ancient societies.
 * needed math to plan and to build things.
 * anthmetic and geo metric
 * base 60[60 sec=1 minutes].[60min = 1 hour]
 * 360 circle
 * architecture:arches, ramps and pyramids like the Ziggurat.
 * writing, form clay tablets
 * Hammu rabi is the leader of Babylonian Empire. [known for code of law]
 * during war the men choose a tough fighter to lead- at first control but after the war ended he was no longer there leader.
 * with more frequent wars tough fighters= commanders got permanent control.
 * **__Hammurato's__** code of law.

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