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The geography made Mesopotamia thrive because of the rivers and the soil. These things got Mesopotamian's food and water, the essentials for survival and therefore a thriving population.

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One geographic feature is the Tigris and Eurphrates Rivers. This feature helped Mesopotamia's cities settle because the settlers used it for food. They also used it for watering their crops.

Another feature is  the rich soil. This helped Mesopotamia's settlers to grow food.

These features impacted Mesopotamia because they helped them to get all of their needs. These features also impacted Mesopotamia in the way that people had a sure source of food.

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The Code of Law did resolve the conflicts because since no one wanted their head or their hand gone they followed the rules.
This form of government helped Mesopotamia thrive because it helped the civilization to be a fair place.

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The government and the laws are important because they help keep order in the  towns and cities. They also make things fair even if sometimes they are the unfair ones.
Hammurabi's code of laws tell me that Mesopotamia had a very strict government and that Hammurabi didn't want any messing around.

Hammurabi's code of laws were important to Mesopotamia because they helped the civilization stay together and not split up. Also the code of law helped people to like Hammurabi and how he organized things and they did not have a rebellion of any sort.

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I think class divisions were created in Mesopotamia so that everyone had there own job. And so everyone didn't have to do everything for themselves.
Kings/Government Officials: In charge of everyone, from organizing labor to who gets what.
Priests: Priests are the ones with the most power after the King, they are in charge of making offerings to the gods.
Artisans/Merchants/Scribes: Are in charge of trading with different states, making art, and making Mesopotamian writing.
Farmers: they were in charge of growing crops to give to the king.

The class divisions were Upper Class, the middle class, and the lower class.

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King's/Government Officials
Pros: Most powerful, luxury, servants, plentiful food.
Cons: Lots of responsibilities, alway working.
Priests
Pros: Gets lots of attention, is depended on for talking to the gods.
Cons: yucky work of sacrificing animals.
Merchants/Artisans/Scribes
Pros: gets a lot of money, get to create stuff for a living, get to write about things for a living.
Cons: lots of work, costs a lot.
Farmers
Pros: can get their own food.
Cons: dirty, lots of work, tiring, taxes.
Slaves
Pros: none
Cons: not paid, fed barely enough, always working for someone else.

This system helped Mesopotamia survive, but I don't think that it was very fair

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The type of religion Mesopotamia had was Polytheism. The worshiped many different gods, and each god was responsible for a certain aspect of life.
Religious Beliefs
1. A storm that washed everyone away except one man. This man was told by the gods to build a great boat and take two of all the animals on earth on this boat.
2.  They also believed that in each city state there was a god that protected it.
3. They believed that the gods stayed in each ziggurat.

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The form of writing Mesopotamians used is called Cuneiform.
The Cuneiform alphabet consists of symbols that meant different sounds. The Sumerians used this form of writing since they developed it.
The Cuneiform alphabet was important because Farmers could record the years crops, merchants could keep detailed reports of their transaction, and records of legal disputes and the resulting settlement could be kept.

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Mesopotamian art mostly were statues representing great rulers or gods.
The art forms show the person either sitting down, standing, or just the head. If the statues were gods they could have possibly been used for worship.