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Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the region can be broadly defined to include the area that is now eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and most of Iraq.

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Mesopotamia was in between the Tigris and the Euphrates river

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Mesopotamia was in between the Tigris river and the Euphrates river which allowed them to grow crops easier.

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If the the gods were pleased with the people the gods would bring good crops. Ziggurats were used for religious and non religious ceremonies.

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They created chariots to move from one place to another and they used wheels on the chariots, the wheels were made of dried wet mud.

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Calendar, Mathematics, Writing.

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Sargon I was the first ruler of the Mesopotamia empire. After Sargon I came Hammurabi. The ruler of Babylon.

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Mesopotamia is located between the Tigris and Euphrates river. There are 3 different types of housing, high class who have two story houses with balcony’s overlooking courtyards. There is middle class whose houses were 1 story and around the courtyard. And there was lower class who houses were further out and there houses were huts. Mesopotamia is in modern day Iraq.

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If they needed money people would rent the wife and the kids of the household owner.

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People worshiped gob and believed that if the gods were unhappy with them, their crops would not grow and they would not live happy lives. Also when Sargon 1 ruled he respected the Sumerian culture. But Hammurabi changed the religion to raising the god of Babylon over all the other gods.

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They believed in over 300 Sumerian gods 

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They believed in over 300 Sumerian gods 

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There achievements were Cuneiform, mathematics, the wheel, 360 degree circle, etc.

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Each class had different houses. Merchants and priest are in more middle in state. Middle class are 1 story high and in the courtyards. Lower class were closest to the wall because most were farms.

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They created the wheel pottery mathematic

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Many people believed in the same religion and worshiped the same gods!

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They created the time we use today, the 60 second minute and the 60 minute hour.

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Different rulers ruled every city-states. Sargon 1 was the first ruler of an empire. He respected culture. Hammurabi was the next ruler, he made the code of laws with strict consequences like being put to death, having their eye be ruined, etc.

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The slaves and farmers lived out side of town when the upper class men lived in side of town.

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They made the wheel

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They made maps, the wheel, the first Language, calendar, mathematics, and currency.

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They built ziggurats to worship gods and they believed if they did something bad they would get bad luck 🍀

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Mesopotamia is located between the Euphrates River and the Tigris River. It is also by the Fertile Crescent which helped the Sumerians grow their crops.

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And maps

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They made ziggurats to practice religion in.

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Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It is set by the Fertile Crescent which helped the Sumerians grow crops. They had 3 different types of housing which separated their different classes.

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The people worshipped several gods/ the ruler in a ziggurat.

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They made a law system and irrigated the twin rivers for water and growing crops.

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They created a mathematics system based on 60s that we use today.

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People exchanged their slurps or extra products for money or goods. Lots of people in the world wanted goods made from babylion people such as from India, China, etc. they would pay gold and silver.

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The Sumerians built ziggurats in which they believed gods lived in. If any bad luck came, they believed it was because they angered the god in some way.

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They created the cuitform

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They built their house close to the Euphrates river so irrigation would be easier. They also had a lot of wars over the Euphrates and Tigris river.

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They made the worlds first writing system called cuneiform.

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Sargon 1 was the first person to be in control of 2 empires

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There were 3 classes. High class, which were priests and merchants, got to live in 2 story homes with a balcony overlooking the ziggurat. Middle class were Government officials and shopkeepers, and they lived in simple 2 story homes. Lower class were farmers and fishermen. They lived in small huts.

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Sumerians believed that gods would determine their luck, and their crops. If they pleased the gods they would have good crops and good luck. But if the gods were angered they would have bad crops and horrible luck.

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The “man of the house” could sell his wife and kids if they needed money.

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Mesopotamia is located between the Euphrates and the Tigris river

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They had three classes the commoners the middle class and the upper class. Most of the upper class people’s were merchants and priests

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There were 3 social structures, upper  class, middle class, and lower class. Upper class was priests and merchants. Their houses were 2 stories, with balcony’s overlooking courtsyards. Middle class was shopkeepers and artisans, there houses were 2 stories around the courtyard. Lower class houses were huts. Upper class people were punished worse than middle and lower class people

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They created cuneiform or writing that we use all the time today

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Merchants and priest were upper class people/rich and got to live in the center of a city state next to the ziggurat, then the middle class was government officials and artistans and lived a little closer to the wall and finally lower class were fisherman and farmers that live outside the wall and inside the city state but right in front of the wall.

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The Sumerians created cuneiform and the 60 based system. They also created the pottery wheel and the chariot. The wheel was also something they created. They also created the calendar. They also had a language, law system, and currency.

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He ruled over 40 years

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In the middle of the city was the rich priest and government officials on the outskirts were farmers.

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Inscribed on a diorite stela set up in Babylon’s temple of Marduk, the national god of Babylonia.

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They believed on gods and if the weren’t happy with them there crops wouldn’t grow

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If they needed money they would exchange surplus