classical civilizations outline
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World History [1]
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Mesopotamia
Culture-
• Believed in many gods
• Had public, state-organized religion is most visible in the archaeological records
• Priest had the power of divination
• Cuneiform was made
• Metallurgy
State-
• Cities evolved from villages
• cities and rural farming villages were dependent on one another
• made of many small city-states
• by the third millennium BCE a king or lugal erected from Sumerian cities
Social Structure-
• slaves comes from mountain tribes
• hereditary slavery
• slaves are able to earn freedom
• the patriarchal society reinforced the elite class
• laws were created to provide answers to lifes' daily dilemmas
• a monarchal society
Egypt
Culture-