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**__ Mesopotamia Notes __**
  //**Literture **//     //**Social Class **// //
 * 1)    Epic of Gilgmesh
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Gives us Infomation oh how they might haved lived
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Story is similar to the Noah's Ark Legend (flood)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Top layer was consisted of Kings, Presits and Lorel Holder
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Next was Weathly Merchants
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Third was Ordinary People who work for a job
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Fourth was Ordinary People who work in the field or in workshops
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Lowest Level was slaves
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Equility (Women's Rights)   ** //
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Women <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">could be merchants, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">farmers, artsens <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">or presist  <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Women could own their <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">own property
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Some <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">upperclassmen Women <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">learned how to read <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">and write and <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">became <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Scribes  <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   There were more women rights than woman in anicent societies

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Geography //** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">      <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> L oc ation   //**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  It was curved shaped
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Mesopotamia waas a flat, swampy land with rich soil; silt
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Fertile Cresent
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Desert climate
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Mesopotamia means " land between rivers"
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Between the Persian Gulf and Mederterrian Sea
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Near Tigris R. and Euphrates River
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Modern day Iraq

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Time Period **//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> 4500 B.C.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> People began to farm 6508 years ago

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Enviromental Challenges //** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Economy/Agriculture **//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">    Unpredictable flooding
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">    Natural Resources were limited
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   There was little rain and when rain did come it flooded
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   No Natural Barriers---> Defenseless; easy to see enemys coming
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">   Not a lot of buliding materials
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">    Needed water for crops--> survial-->built irrigation ditches
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  They traded grain and clothe --> in return they got stone, wood and metal
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Grew Wheat and barely
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Through Trade Exchange ideas---> Cultural Diffusions

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">//**War Defense**//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> They built city walls
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Constant war between City-States
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Hard to defend = no natural barriers
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Spread Culture
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Mean would pick a leader during times of war so they would have someone incharged.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">**//Religion//**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Polythesim--> belief in many gods
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Gods Controlled nature
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> They thought you go to the land of no return when you die
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Gave offering and sacrifices to the gods

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">//**Architecture**// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  They had arche, ramps, columns, prymaids,
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">  Also had things like around the bazar.

//**Insitutions**//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> City State Independent
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> They were a self-governing city inclluding it's surrounding farm land
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Dynasty; series of rulers from one ruler
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> City was in the middle of the state and the farmland was surrounding it like rings.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">**//Important People//**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Sargon--> was the king, conquered
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Sumer--> adapted sumer and spread culture--> was the first empire
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Hammurabi--> leader of Babylonian Empire (known for the code of law)

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">//**Technology**// //**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Government **//
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Inventions; wheel, plow, bronze, sail
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Needed Math to plan and build things
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Arthemtic and gemoetry
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Equation --> Base 60 (60 sec. = 1 minute) (60 minutes = 1 hr.) = 360 degree circle
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> ARchitecture; arches, ramps, pyramids, zig.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Writing Cuneiform--> means "wedge shaped"
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Controlled by priests at first
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> During war mean chose a tough fighter too lead
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">1rst Contol ended after the war was over
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">With more frequent wars tough fighters turned into commanders
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> They Got peerament control
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Hammurabi's Code of Law was always remembered

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