TiffMeso

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" || received stone wood and metal grew wheat barley and sorghom CULTURAL DIFFUSiON! || 4500 B.c. 6,508 years ago Sumer 3300b.c. Sumerians || natural resources were limited little rain=desert no natural barriers not a lot of building materials need water for crops built irrgation ditches || built city walls constant war between city-states hard to defend=no natural barriers spread culture men pick a leaderduring times of war || gives us info on how they might have lived story is similar to te noah Ark legend (flood) || women could be merchants farmers or artisans women could own property women could be priests some upper class learned to read write and become scribes more rights than women in many ancient societies || Next=Wealthy merchants ordinary people who worked in the fields or in workshops Lowest level=Slaves (debt,war) || inventions=wheel, plow, bronze saial needed math to plan and build things arithmetic and gemoetry base 60 60 sec= 1 min 60m=i hour 360 circle architecture arches ramps and pyramids ziggurats writing cuneiform con clay tablets || Controlled by priests and first during war men chose a tough fighter to lead @ 1st control ended after watr over w/ more frequent wars tough fighters=commandeers got permanant control Hamurrabi's code of law ||
 * Location || Geography ||
 * * Between Persian Golf and Red Sea
 * Tigris River and Euphrates
 * Modern Day iraq
 * Southwest asia
 * || * Curved shape
 * flat swamp lands
 * rich soil/silt
 * fertile crescent
 * desert landmark
 * Mesopotamia means"land btwn the rivers
 * Economy/Agriculture || Time Period ||
 * traded grain and cloth and tools
 * Enviromental Challenges || War/Military/Defense ||
 * unpredictable flooding
 * Literature || Equality ||
 * epi of Gilgemesh
 * Social Class || Technology ||
 * Top layer=Kings, Landholders and priests
 * Government