Kat+Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia Home       __ **Geography ** __
 * Curved shape
 * Flat swampy land
 * Rich soil & silt
 * Fertile cresent
 * Desert climate

**__Economy/Agriculture __** 
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #092bf6; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Traded grain clothes, and tools
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #092bf6; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Recived stone, wood. and metal
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #092bf6; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Grew wheat, barley, and sorghom
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #092bf6; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Through traded exchanges ideas Cultural Diffusion

__ **<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time period ** __ __** <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Environmental Changes **__ <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> __ **War military defense** __ <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> __ **Architecture**  __
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f415a9; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4500 B.C. people began to farm
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f415a9; font-family: Georgia, serif;">3300 B.C. sumer (city state)
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Unpredictable flooding-good soil-ruins crops
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Natural resources were limited
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Little rain in desert
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">No natural barriers
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Not a lot of building material
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Need water for survival
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">For crops
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #58ff00; font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: #ffffff;">Built irrigration ditches
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f0fd0d; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Built city walls
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f0fd0d; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Constant water between city states
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f0fd0d; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hard to defend=no natural barriers
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f0fd0d; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Spread culture
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: #f0fd0d; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Men pick a leader during tries of war
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ziggarat <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">[[image:http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:facpc25JI90YQM:http://www.birkey.com/imgs/projects/ziggarat-360.jpg width="77" height="100" link="http://www.birkey.com/imgs/projects/ziggarat-360.jpg"]]
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Arches <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">[[image:http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:4Fploe_tJadOsM:http://www.siouxcitymuseum.org/historic_photos/gateway%2520arches.jpg width="63" height="86" link="http://www.siouxcitymuseum.org/historic_photos/gateway%20arches.jpg"]] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Ramps <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">[[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JzQ4MuoO0JwklM:http://www.abbylifts.com/pics/AluminumRamp_full.jpg width="118" height="81" link="http://www.abbylifts.com/pics/AluminumRamp_full.jpg"]] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Columns <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">[[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:uFwoTknYD4TXTM:http://www.roofingsalesco.com/u/ufile/superior_columns.jpg width="72" height="86" link="http://www.roofingsalesco.com/u/ufile/superior_columns.jpg"]] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pyramids [[image:http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:eyXqThuRlx4c5M:http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/O/S/3/pyramids01.JPG width="130" height="98" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/O/S/3/pyramids01.JPG&imgrefurl=http://cruises.about.com/od/africacruises/ig/Pyramids-of-Giza-in-Egypt/pyramids01.htm&usg=__38wjTaL__D917FjtZI0CKug9Qqs=&h=375&w=500&sz=37&hl=en&start=64&tbnid=eyXqThuRlx4c5M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpyramids%26start%3D60%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN"]]

__**<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #cb108f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #07ff00;">Social Class **__ __**<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #001eff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ff00df;">Equality (womans rights) **__ __**<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #0e20af; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #efd825;">Technology **__ __**<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #0009ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ed0707;">Important people **__
 * __<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #ffe800; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #080707;">Literature __**
 * Epic of glgemesh
 * Gives us information on how they might have lived
 * Story is similar to the Noah's Ark legend (flood)
 * Top layer:Kings, landholders, and preists
 * Next weathly merchants
 * Next ordinarry people:People who worked in the feilds or in workshops
 * Lowest level=Slaves (debt-war)
 * Woman could be merchants,farmers,or artisans
 * Woman could own property
 * Woman could be priests
 * Some upper class learned to read and write, and became scribes
 * They had more rights than woman in many ancient societies
 * Inventions:Wheels,plow,bronze,soil
 * Needed math to plan and build things
 * Arithmentic and geometry: Base 60 (60sec=1min) (60m=1hr.) 360degrees circle
 * Sargon-conqurer (1st empire)
 * Hammurabi leader of babylonian empire
 * __<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #0d0e11; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #0cff00;">Government __**
 * Controlled by priest at first
 * During war men chose tough fighter to lead at first control ended after war was over
 * With more frequent wars tough fighter=commanders got permanent
 * Hammuraloi's code of law

__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #b71ef6; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #3bff00;">** Institutions ** __ __<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #1f41ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #c226f7;">** Location ** __
 * city-state independant self governing city including its surrounding farmland
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> between persian gulf and Mederteranian sea

Katerina A