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Ducksters.com. (2017). Ancient Mesopotamia: The Ziggurat. [online] Available at: http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ziggurats.php [Accessed 13 Oct. 2017].

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That Make Civilization

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These landfroms all helped Mesopotamia to Thrive. The mountains rushed water ointo the rivers as the snow melted, making richer soil. The rivers helped to provide water. The specific range of mountains, the Zagros, helped protect Mesopotamia from intruders. I mean, really, who wants to cross a mountain range? The desert helped as well, because crossing the desert sounds about as pleasant as crossing the mountains! :)

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This writing way was very good! It helped people with many things, as listed above. However, they might want to make it less long (complicated). This piece took me haf hour to write! :)

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Picture Two - Statues

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Picture One - Pottery

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Part Two

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Part One

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These classes helped Mesopotamia to thrive, because everyone had their job, and their position, and you could always move up by hard work, and goals.

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Some art examples they had were:

Statues

Pottery

Bucket and Cones

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You had absolutely no privileges as a slave, except the more right to hope and dream than anyone else. You were treated like a mule!

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Some of the privilages of this job contained the choice of which job you want, and having a little less complicated life as Upper class and priests do. A few drawbacks were being poorer, and owning less slaves. The better classes also treated you worse.

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Being Upper class got you some privilages. You got the best clothes and jewelry, to start. You also got the most slaves. A few drawbacks were if you were female, your father married you off, and you always had to act proper. Acting proper all the time also went for the males too.

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Some drawbacks of being a priest was loneliness. You were in a temple all the time, but you got some extra privliges. Some included being allowed anywhere, anytime, and a great education.

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Exemplary Option -
A ziggurat is a large monument worshiping a god or goddess. These were often in the middle of the city, ensuring the city's safety. Ziggurats were similar to Egyptian pyramids, except the ziggurats had many steps up and down the side. People believed that gods/goddesses would use the steps to come down to Earth. Many ziggurats have been reconstructed or rebuilt. However, one of few exists at Chogha Zanbil.

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Exemplary Option -
This type of goverenment probably resolved most of the conflicts because no one wants the punishments! This likely made Mesopotamia survive. With all the people dying, the population growth was smaller.

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During the Third Millenium, people made statues out of wood and stone, later  evolving  into bronze and copper.The statues started with representing history, or to flatter their gods and goddesses. However, the people kept the art of pottery.

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These systems of witing were very important to ancient Mesopotamia. The downside of living there was that when the snow on top of the mountains melted and rushed to the rivers, the rivers flooded the crops. Writing was used to keep track of when the fields would flood, and this saved many crops.

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Cuneiform was used by all except slaves. The priests used it to write down their gods´ will and the Upper class to keep track of history or write poetry. The Lower class used it to keep track of thre dates that the farms would be flooded, and early priests developed a calender.

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The writing system of the ancient Mesopotamians was titled cuneiform.

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Majortiy of the Neolithic art was pottery that featured geometric designs of plant and animal motifs. The pottery during the Neolithic period was basically for decoration and storage of precious items that people had to carry with them.

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The three main beliefs were that...
1). Each god and goddess  was in charge of a certain aspect of everyday life.
2). Apsu and Tiamat were the father and mother of all living things.
3). The gods each protected a city.

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The Mesopotamians were  polytheistic. That means that they worshipped and believed in many different gods and goddesses. The gods and goddesses were in control of a nature, or something in every-day life (healing, farming…). The gods had their own ziggurat dedicated to them in large civilizations. People, usually priests regularly made offerings to them.

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The priests got very high education in Religion, and most likely many other subjects due to them sometimes becoming a doctor.
The Upper class most likely got educated in laws and the same things as priests, but maybe nt as in depth.
The Lower class likely got educated on laws, and how to do their job (farm, barber, etc, etc).
Slaves likely got no education.

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Slaves were prisoners of war or onflict from other Mesopotamian villages. Most Priests and Upper class had them, and the richer Lower class could buy them for farms.

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Mesopotamians in the Lower class wore the same garments and hair length as the Upper class. However, these people´s garments were not made out of the same material, and their jewelry not of precious gems.

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The Upper class were the richest and people like kings. They owned the most slaves and biggest homes. The Upper class men wore long hair, lots of jewelry, and a skirt type garment. The women in that class wore cloaks with   one shoulder open, and hair and jewelry like the men. When it got cold, they all wore cloaks of wool.

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Priests told people how to behave to keep their gods happy. In some places, priests were also the doctors. Priests shaved their head so everyone could tell that they were to be respected.

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There were four classes in Mesopotamia. The first was the Priests. Next, the Upper Class, then followed the Lower class, and the bottom class was the slaves.

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Class divisions were crated in Mesopotamia to seperate poorer people from the richer and so they could determine which would have less privilages like slaves.

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The goverment was important to Mesopotamia because about half of it helped the people to lead good and just lives. It is important today because it inspired our laws that guide us.

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The laws can tell you that Mesopotamia was brutal, maybe not even on purpose. About half the laws were cruel and resulted in being thrown into the water, dying, or having your hands chopped off!

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Goverment and laws are very important. Laws help to guide us to doing the right thing.

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The rivers of Tigris and Euphrates helped Mesopotamia to thrive. They made rich soil and watered the crops. However, when the mountains sent water into them, they could flood over the crops.

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The mountains helped Mesopotamia to thrive. When it got warm, their snow covered caps melted, sending water into the rivers

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Map of Major Cities and Landforms:

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The mountains and the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) helped Mesopotamia