KRMesopotamia

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 * __** Mesopotamia :**__
 * **__Location__**
 * btwn persian gulf and Med. Sea
 * Tigris R. and Euphraks R.
 * Modern day iraq
 * Southwest Asia **__Geography__**
 * curved shape fertile cresent
 * Flat swapy land
 * Rich soil =silt
 * Desert climate
 * Mesopotamia means "land btwn the rivers."
 * __**Economy/Ariculture**__
 * Traded grain and cloth,tools
 * Received stone, wood, and metal
 * Grew wheat, barley sorghom
 * Through trade exhange ideas
 * >Cultural >Ffusion
 * **__Time period__**
 * 4500BC people began to farm
 * 3300BC sumer [city state]
 * [sumerians]
 * [people]
 * 4500 0 2008
 * 4500
 * 2008=6508 years ago
 * **__Architecture__**
 * Ziggurat[closest to the gods]
 * temple/church
 * gort
 * grain
 * around the "bazaar"=marketplace
 * exchange ideas
 * *religinig politcal,economic and social
 * arches
 * ramps
 * colums
 * pyramids
 * __**Literature**__
 * Epic of gilgamesh
 * Gives us information an how they might have lived
 * Story is similar to the noah's ark legend[flood]
 * __**Social class**__
 * Top layer:kings,landhold and priests
 * Next wealthy merchants
 * next ordinary people who worked in the field or in workshops
 * lowest level=slaves [debt-war]
 * __**Enviromental challeges**__
 * Unpridicted able flooding good bad soil
 * natural resources were limited
 * little rain=desert
 * no natural barriers= defenseless easy to see enemy coming
 * not a lot of building materials
 * need water for crops and survival built irrigation ditches
 * __**war/military/defense**__
 * built city walls
 * constant war between city states
 * hard to defend = no natural barriers
 * spread culture
 * men pick a leader during times of war
 * i__**nstitutions**__
 * city state independent self governing city including its surrounding farm land
 * empires indepdent countriey city states brought under 1 ruler
 * sargon created the 1st
 * baloyonian invaded mesopot
 * dynasty scries of rules from 1 faimly
 * **__religion__**
 * polytheism belief in many gods
 * gods controlled narture
 * what happens to you after death?
 * go to the land of no return =gross yucky place
 * gave offering and sacrifices tothe gods
 * __**eqvalty[womens kights**__
 * women could be merchants farmers or arisians
 * women could own property
 * women could be priests
 * some upper class leaned to read write and become scribes
 * more rignts than women in many ancient societies
 * __**technology**__
 * inventions wheel plow bronze sail
 * needed math to plan and build things
 * arithmetic and geomtry base 60[60 sec =1 min] [60m =1 hr]
 * architecture archers ramps pyramids zig
 * writing cuneiform on clay tablets
 * __**impotant people**__
 * sargon conqured sumer [adapled spread culture ]
 * hammvrabi leader of baby lonian empire [known for code of law
 * __**government**__
 * controlled by priests first
 * during war men chose a tough fighter to lead 1st control ended after war was over
 * with more frquent wars tough fiters commanders got permanent control
 * hammurdoi's code of law