occhialini+mesopotamia

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 * <span style="color: #fffafb; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #f51435;"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">// Location: // **   <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Between the Persian Gulf & Medditeranian Sea.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Modern Day Iraq
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Between Tigris R. & Euphraks R.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Curved Shape
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Flat swampy land
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rich Soil
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Desert Climate
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Mesopotamia means " land between the rivers"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Traded grain and cloth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Recieved stone, wood, and metal.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Grew wheat and barley
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 2500 B.C.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 3300 B.C. sumer ( city state )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 4500 B.C. - 2008 = 6,500 years ago.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Unpredictable flooding
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Natural resources were limited
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Little rain
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> No natural barriers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Not alot of building materials
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> need water for crops ---> survival
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> built irrigation ditches
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> city state
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> independent
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> self governing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> city including its surrounding farm land
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Dynasty- series of rulers in a family
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Polytheism- believe in many gods
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Gods controlled nature
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> What happens to you after death?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> They believed you went to the land of no return
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> gave offerings and sacrafices to the gods
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> arches, ramps, columns, pyramids.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> ziggarat
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> first level is the temple
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> second level is the government
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> bottom level is the grain
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Epic of Gildemesh
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Gives us information on how they might have lived
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Story is similar to the Noah's Ark legend ( flood )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Top layer- kings, land holder, and preists
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Next- wealthy merchants
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Next: ordinary people; people who worked in the field or in workshops
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Lowest level- slaves ( debt - war )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Women could be merchants, farmers, or artisans
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Women could own property
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Women could be preists
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Some upper class women learned to read, write, and become scribes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> More rights than women in many ancient socieities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> inventions
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> wheel
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> plow
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> bronze
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> sail
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Needed math to plan & build things
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Arithmetic & geometry
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> ( 60 seconds = 1 minute )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> ( 60 minutes = 1 hour )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 360 '' circle
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Architecture ;
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> pyramids
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> arches
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> ramps
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> ziggarats
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Writing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> cuneiform ( on clay tablets ) " wedge shaped "
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Sargon
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Conquer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Sumer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Adapted and spread sumer culture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Hammurobi
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Leader of baby lonian empire
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Known for code of law
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Controlled by preists at first
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> During war men chose a tough fighter to lead
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Control ended after war was over.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> With more frequent wars tough fighters commanders got permanent control
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Hammurabi's code of law