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I think the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers probably have the biggest impact on people settling in Mesopotamia, eventually forming cities. This is because the rivers were probably their biggest source of water, as both are freshwater and not saltwater, so that would help them a lot. The geography affected Mesopotamian cities by a lot. The rivers would provide the people water, but the river would also be negative because it could flood the crop of farmers. The Zagros mountains probably also affected the cities because they maybe could find new animal breeds up in the mountains.

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The laws and rules in cities are very important because they keep everything fair and organized. They keep cities in order and make punishment for bad things. Hammurabi's laws showed that Mesopotamia, although punishments could be cruel, it was still mostly fair. Hammurabi's laws are important to Mesopotamia because they kept everything in order and made all people be fair to each other. It is important today because if we didn't have it we wouldn't have laws today, and now we can see what Mesopotamians thought as fair laws. The code of laws did what it was supposed to do. It kept Mesopotamia in order. It helped Mesopotamia survive because it didn't let people go out and hurt each other and steal each other's crops. It also kept all the things each law addressed mostly in order.

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The three main class divisions in ancient Mesopotamia were Lower class, Middle Class, and Upper class. In the lower-class, you would usually be a slave, which is a person who works for people in the higher classes. You would only need skill in the things your owner wants you to be skilled in, and you did not have to go through a form of education. In the middle class, you would have a much bigger variety of jobs, such as being a scribe. By being a scribe, you would have to be fluent in writing and would have to go to writing school to learn how to do the writing. In the upper class, you could either be a king or a priest. King's would not have to really have any skill, they would just have to be born into royalty or take over the king's spot, and kings did not need any form of education. Living in the lower class would probably be the worst since your stuck doing hard labor all day, and you would have no free time. The middle class would be better because you would live in a home, get pretty good pay, and would have more free time than anyone in Lower class. But in the upper class it would be the best, as you would live in much grander homes, you would get paid well, and although you would have to make some tough decisions, you would still get a lot of time for yourself.

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Mesopotamia's religion is complex and diverse like religion today. They have several gods they worship as much as they can. They have priests that are there to do the prime worshipping to the gods, and all the gods were the things that influence their daily lives. Mesopotamians believed that gods lived at the peak of ziggurats, and would come down using the wide range of stairs. The detailed and artistic statues also show the belief of the gods. They also believed that they had to please their gods, so they would influence their day with good acts and hard work. A Ziggurat is a giant mud and clay building their for worship to the gods. It was in the middle of the city so the gods could walk down the stairs into the city, and so all people can go and worship at their own time. Ziggurats were built with a core of mud brick, and an exterior of baked brick, and were usually square or rectangular. There are only a few ziggurats left (somewhat) standing, such as the ziggurat at Chogha Zanbil.

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In Mesopotamia, they had lots of different art pieces in their time. A big part of art was music, and they would play songs at parties and gatherings. They would play drums or a pipe or sometimes play a unique harp-like instrument known as the Lyre. There was also actual art, such as when metalworkers made cups and unique items. Architects designed buildings, and sculptors sculpted statues and unique images. Some of the art forms were actually useful. The music part of art wasn't that useful, but it still was a source of enjoyment. The metalworkers however made items everyday Mesopotamians could use, and sculptors made unique statues that the Mesopotamians could worship, and they could have made everyday items as well. It is important to study the art of ancient civilizations because it could show us the differences from their art to ours, and the ways they painted or sculpted. It can also show us their many interests and beliefs compared to our beliefs today. It also could show us a part of their everyday lives and so we can learn about their everyday activities.

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The form of writing in Mesopotamia was known as Cuneiform. Cuneiform is where  Mesopotamians would write using a sharp-edged stylus into a clay tablet, and they would record different events and stories. The people that used Cuneiform were known as scribes, who were trained writers in Mesopotamian language. Writing for Mesopotamians was their way to record events and ancients stories for religion or for children. They also were told about the taxes they needed to pay and the crops that needed to be grown by Cuneiform,