Tryon+Mesopotamia

Tryon Home  Jessica Tryon Mesopotamia

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**Geography:** **Economy/Agriculture:** **Time Period:** **Challenges:** **War/Military/defenses:** **Institutions:** **Architecture:** **Literature:** **Social Class:** **Technology:** **Equality:womens rights** **Important people:** **Government:**
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Location: **
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Between the Persian Gulf and Meddeteranian Sea
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Modern day Iraq
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Between Tigris R & Euphraks R.
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Curved shape
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">flat swampy land
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">rich soil "silt"
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">"fertile crescent"
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">desert climate
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Mesopotamia means land between rivers.
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Traded grain/cloth
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">recieved stone, wood and metal
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">grew wheat, and barley
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">4500 BC
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">people began to farm
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">3300 BC
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Sumer (city state)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">sumerians (people)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">unpredictable flooding which is both good and bad
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">natural resources were limited
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">little rain in deserts
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">no natural barriers-->defenseless
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">not alot of building materials
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">need water for crops--> survival
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">built irrigation ditches
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">built city walls
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">city state
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">independent
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">self governing city
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">surrounding farm land
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Religion: **
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">believed in polytheism (beleif in many gods)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">believe that god controlled nature
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">what happens to you after death--> "land of no return" (gross yucky place)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">gave offerings & sacrifices to the gods
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">arches, ramps, columns, pyramids
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">zigarrat
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">first level-->temple/church
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">second level-->government
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">third level-->grain
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Epic of gilgemesh; gives us info on how they may have lived
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">story is similar to noahs ark>legend (flood)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Top layer-->kings, land holders, and preists
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Next layer--> ordinary people who work in fields or workshops
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">lowest layer-->slaves (debt-war)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">inventions:
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">wheel
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">plow
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">bronze
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">sail
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">needed math to plant and build things
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">arithmatic & geometry
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">base 60
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">60 seconds=1 minute
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">60 minutes=1 hour
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">architecture:
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">arches
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">ramps
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">pyramids
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">zigarrat
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Writing:
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">cuneiform--->written on clay tablets (wedge shaped letters)
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">women could be merchants, famers, or artisans
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">women could own property
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">women could be preists
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #309cbb; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">somer upper class women learned to read and write and/or become scribes. * more rights then most women in ancient societys
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Sargon-->Sumer (adapted and spread sumerian culture)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Hammurabi leader of babylon empire (known for code of law)
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">controlled by preists at first
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">during war men chose a tough fighter to lead
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">at first control ended after war was over
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">with more frequent wars tough fighers= commanders
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">got permanent control
 * <span style="color: #bb6cf9; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Hammurabis code of law