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They follow laws and were ruled over by kings.

"Kish, and then Babylon, became great capitals. They fell as Assur and Nineveh gained in power."

"With the start of the Sumerian civilization, daily life in Mesopotamia began to change. Prior to the growth of cities and large towns, people lived in small villages, and most people hunted and gathered. There wasn't a lot of variety in jobs or daily life."

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Language is often influenced by religion, culture, government, and geo-political positions. some languages are undeciphered, including the indus script, the vonyich manuscript language, and others. this can lead to problems when trying to learn about a civillization.

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Idea #1: they had a king to rule the region

Idea #2: king hammurabi made a set of laws called hammurabi's code

Idea #3: after the persians were defeated, mesopotamia was ruled in turn by the greeks, romans, arabs, and turks.

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Cuneiform became the written language from as early as 5000 BC. As the civilization of Sumer started to decline, other civilizations continued to use the Sumerian written symbols. Thanks to the Sumerians, we know a great deal about the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations of Babylon and Assyria as well.

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Idea #1   In Mesopotamia each city had their own god, at the center of the city there was a large temple or ziggurat built to that god.

Idea #2   The main religion was Zoroastrianism, that religion was based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster.

Idea #3  Anu was the god of heavens and was also the king of the gods, he was a Sumerian.

Idea #4  Marduk was the primary god of the Babylonians and had Babylon as his main city.

Idea #5  Ashur was the god of war and he was a god of the Assyrians.

Idea #6  Each god got their own Ziggurat to live in.

Idea #7  The temples had 3 rooms, with nice decoration, the god had the room closest to the middle of the building.

Idea #8   Everyday Priests go to wash the gods statue and clothed and fed it.

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1. They host festival for people to enjoy the music.
2. They give them food to the gods as a form of praying.
3. Also they enjoy board game and boxing as entertainment.

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some lived in two-level, three-level, and even four-level homes of sturdy sun-baked brick.
for example if you kill someone they have to kill you it is basically whatever crime you commit you get it back.

they got almost all their food from farming.  they wore clothing mostly from sheepskin or wool.
sometimes they had festivals including drums, lyres, flutes, and harps.

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1. Mesopotamia started using the wheel on vehicles like carts around the 3200 B.C

2. The tradition of building ziggurats began in Sumerians but other civilizations started building ziggurats too

3. You were able to keep your customs as long as you paid taxes and obeyed the laws/ruler

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The population of the cities divided into social classes

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The people of sumer and babylonia have a pyramid that is called the social organization which has two classes the king and the priests get the upper class and the citizens and the slaves get the lower class.

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1 - Types of jobs they had in Mesopotamia were a priest, scribe, merchant, craftsman, soldier, civil servant, and laborer.

2 - People in Mesopotamia lived in homes that were made from mud bricks. They were square shaped and either had 2 or 3 levels. The roofs were flat and during the summer, they would sleep on the roofs. The mud brick house helped keep the house cooler during hot summers.

3 - The goods people in Mesopotamia produced were food, clothing, jewelry, wine and traded them between cities.

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- In the Sumerians each person had their own god
- People believed that the gods were present in their cities
- They all believed that everything good and bad that happened to them was the result of their gods pleasure or displeasure

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1.    Farms became towns, and towns became cities, new inventions were being made, such as government and writing were made to help keep order in the cities.

2.   In 1750 BCE, the Babylonian king Hammurabi created a detailed system of 282 laws called the Code of Hammurabi. There were brutal punishments if these laws were broken.

3. Then there was an assembly of wise men, elected by the people, who could overrule the king and say, this is not a good law, get rid of it; or the assembly might say we don't want to go to war, so stop it. Each city-state had its own king and its own assembly. Government was quite different, however, in ancient Assyria.

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Ancient mesopotamians used pictographs then symbols like letters.

Mesopotamians used soft moist clay tablets to keep records of goods they sold or traded or records of the government.

This form of writing began millions of years ago and was first used to write to the goods.

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Upper class was for the rich people and the king and the lower class was for the poor and the normal citizens and the slaves

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1 The earliest known civilization started in southern Mesopotamia in about 4500 bce its called study hall.
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The people of Summer found that the soil was good for growing crops.3
because  there was little rain, the people built irrigation systems to carry water from the rivers to their fields.
4 Beginning in about 2350 bce an Akkadian ruler named Sargon conquered Sumer and much of the rest of Mesopotamia.

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Ancient Mesopotamia Religion

1: In early Mesopotamia they had ziggurats, Ziggurats were giant pyramid shaped structures with multiple levels.  in these Ziggurats they would worship gods the first ziggurat was made in Ur

2: A huge part of mesopotamia religion  was worshiping their gods each of their gods were said to hold power such as being responsible for different parts of life

3: mesopotamians would bring the gods peace offerings such as animals,and statues

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The sumerians are often credited with inventing the wheel Many of the

buildings, walls, and structures were made from sun-dried bricks. These bricks didn't last long, so very little of Ancient Mesopotamian cities still stand.

Much of what we know about Mesopotamian historyIn assyrian people made clay tablets in assyrian’s cities to make written laws and more

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1. They made beautiful pottery and built two-level, three-level, and even four-level homes of sturdy sun-baked brick.

2. Each day the Mesopotamians worship the god.

3. Mesopotamians had to pay taxes to keep their valuables. If they did not pay the stuff they needed to they would become slaves for the high ranked people.