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| 237524176 | politics of mesopatamia | it started out with theocracy had city states there were the babalonians then summerians then persians each city state had their own government they had ziggarats preists had the power in the begging then it was later dynasties Assyrains were the best with war code of hammaraibi the code was placedn on stone tablets around the city diverse social classes kings/ preist kings disipline depended on a persons social class hammarabis code | 0 | |
| 237524177 | religion of mesopatiamia | first the preist was in controll the ziggrat was the temple each city-state had ther eown partiot god temple was on top of the ziggurat ziggort represented the cosmic mountain or stairway to heaven preist kings polytheim god of the clouds and air was enill over 3,000 gods with human qualities gods were rash and unpredictable (like the river) | 1 | |
| 237524178 | economics of mesopatamia | they traded with their rivers had limited resorces agriculture based economy merchants kings and preists farmers created scribes cuniform created first writing system had wedge shaped writing inverted the wheel, plow, and sail earliest scetched maps had astronomy number system based on 60 made citys out of bricks resources were stone,wood and metal invented the wheel,calender | 2 | |
| 237524179 | mesopatamian culture | cultural diffusion with pictograms had strong army because they were easily attached built mud brick cities had the zigguart-step pyrimid polythetic the epic of gilgamesh 3 social classes woman had rights used cylender seals spread writing cuniform scribe school | 3 | |
| 237524180 | interactions with the mesopatamians | traded with the Eughrates and Tigurus rvr cultural diffusion assyrian were good at war created batting ram babyolians were deffeted by the persains summerians, babylons, assyarans, persains had conflict with eachother | 4 | |
| 237524181 | society of mesopataimians | there were 3 social classes, first the preist and roalty, then the wealthy merchants then finaly the ordiany workers slaves were so low woman had rights the woman culd not attend school and could not read or write scribe school many people wanted to become scribes Nebuchadezzar created the hanging gardens of babylon very militaristic | 5 | |
| 237524182 | enviroment of mesopaamia | lies between the Euphrates and tigurus rvr (called the land inbetween the rivers) very fertile land also known as the fertile cresent easy trading easily attached agriculture irragation rivers flooded dry and arid climate irrigation rivers flooded rivers left silt limited natrual resorces mud-bricks traded alot many helpful domesticated plants and animals flat land city walls modern day iraq | 6 |
