Mesopotamia

1. AneesJoda Tomas Muckle Braedan Vander-Zalm Avery Franz Daniel Anzulovich Nicholas Verga Mesopotamia

2. Political AneesJoda • The Kings and Queens of Mesopotamia were believed to have been descended from the City of Gods. • The government of Mesopotamia is a monarch. It is so effective because the kings and queens refer to themselves extremely highly causing people to respect them and please them in any way they see fit. They call themselves “king of the universe” or “great king”. • The militaries consisted of large heavily organized group of highly trained individuals with no remorse when it came to taking the lives of others. • Mesopotamia was a battleground between Romans and Parthians.

3. Education, Avery Franz • For most of human history the majority of the population was uneducated, meaning that most people did not know how to read and write, and they could not do anything beyond the simplest math. • A child’s main teacher in Ancient Mesopotamia were their parents. So if your parents were farmers, you would learn the ways of a farmer. The child would then someday take over the family farm and pass the same teachings along to their children.

4. Economy, Tomas Muckle • Mesapotamia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and this made the land very fertile which was a good means of agriculture. • Grains and animal products were mostly produced by Mesopotamia at this time. • There was no money system such as we have today; instead, people bartered using goods, animals, and other tangible items. • They developed the first large scale economy. • It took a tremendous amount of human labor to successfully irrigate the land and to protect the young plants from the surging flood waters. Enormous amount of lower class laborers greatly contributed to the success of the civilization. • With irrigation, the food supply in Mesopotamia was quite rich. • Farmers did not have money so they used their goods as means of money.

5. Social, Daniel Anzulovich • There are 3 levels of class: The first level consists of kings, rulers and nobles. The second level consists of teachers, labours, merchants, while the third level is the slaves and prisoners • - Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Mesopotamia is generally credited with being the first place where civilized societies truly began to take shape. The domestication of animals for labor and food develop­ed simultaneously. These were parts of human culture, but not civilization. Mesopotamians refined, added to and formalized these systems, combining them to form a civilization • - The first level consists of kings, rulers and nobles • - Most boys were taught their father's trade or were apprenticed out to learn a trade. Girls had to stay home with their mothers to learn housekeeping and cooking and to look after the younger children • - The Mesopotamian woman's role was strictly defined. She was the daughter of her father or the wife of her husband. Women rarely acted as individuals outside the context of their families • - The ancient Sumerians believed in education. Record keeping was very important to them, they wrote everything down. They wanted their sons to learn how to read and write. Their written language was called cuneiform. Schools were attached to temples. Only boys went to school.  Teachers were very strict and students had to do a perfect job, or they were punished

6. Cultural, Nick Verga • -Most important in there civilization: they value festivals to the Gods, for a good harvest and success of the reigning monarch. • -Cultural activities: the people played games such as wrestling, boxing, hunting, polo and a form of backgammon. They also made music to the gods, the kings and to enjoy socially in marketplaces. The children pass down the songs and games to their children when they are old enough and so on.

7. Geography, BraedanVanderzalm • Political: geography exploits the research that the governmant had but they thrived from the farming wich gets demda money • Social: contact with neighboring lands was important • Culture: early settlers farmed the land and used timber, metals, and stone from the metals nearby. Citys developed near the the rivers. They had to irragate the land along the banks the rivers in order for their crops to grow. Not many natural resources • Economic: they thrived of there farming because they controlled water flow, tehre was not much rain but they made canals that lead to the farms. • Education: it impacts it because if your parents own a farm they raise you to be a farmer but if you have no farm your parents teach you life lessons

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