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This mosaic art work is in three rows, at the top is the highest class of people, seated and a king. At the bottom is men completing slave labor.

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The Sumerians invented a wedge shaped writing called Cuneiform. The written language was used primarily for recording transactions.

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Every city had a temple or a Ziggurat. In Akkadian, ziggurat means to "rise high"

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This is the city state of Ur, it had a wall around it and was on the Tigris River. The patron god was Nunna, the God of the Moon.

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Uruk was an ancient city in Mesopotamia. It was a city-state with a wall surrounding it

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Only priests were allowed at the top of the Ziggurat. The higher you were, the closer to the gods.

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Taxes - helped fund the government and building projects to expand their city/empire/city-state.

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Only the priests got to go to the top of the temple,and communicate with the gods.

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Wrote the first code of law on large tablets. It helped punish people for crimes

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Babylon was originally a small city during the time of the Akkadians. Babylon was later upgraded into a major city by Hammurabi, and after getting destroyed the Assyrians, became the capital of the Chaldean empire.

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King Hammurabi was the king of Babylon and created Hammurabi's Code.

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King Hammurabi was the king of Babylon and created Hammurabi's Code.

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Priests were powerful people. In charge of making sure people acted as the the God's would've wanted. Also  theocracy, where a place would have a religious leader ruling.

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Priests were the leaders of the communities until monarchies came into power.

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priests and peoples beliefs based on monotheism and polytheism
+++more polytheistic

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The highest class included scribes,kings,priests and more. The men in the highest class wore skirts and had long hair. They wore jewelry mostly rings. The largest social group is the Middle class. The Middle class includes merchants,farmers,fisherman and old artisans.The lowest class included mainly slaves and criminals. They worked for the highest class or wealthy.

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Mesopotamia was ruled by priests and theocracies before different empires took over.

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After the Chaldeans conqured Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar became the ruler and taxed his people. This shows government because their is a ruler and a system of collecting revenue for the government.

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the scribes which were official records of what happened on a daily bases, to look back on.

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There were three main social classes, Upper consisted of mainly priests and kings, middle class had artisans and common folk, and the lower class consisted of prisoners and slaves.

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Upper, middle and lower classes all consisted of different people with different careers. Upper class was priest and gov. officials. Middle class was farmers and fisherman, etc. Lowest class was slaves and debt

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Priests were doctors, ran the schools, and controlled the distribution of land farmers and crops to worker
++not all of this is religion

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Back then, Sumerian scribes did't have paper. So in order for them to write information, they needed to use tablets that were made out of clay. These tablets recorded life, marriage, contracts, and business dealings.

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The most common places where People put artwork was on places of worship and burial tombs

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The people of Mesopotamia were placed In three levels. The upper middle and lower class. The upper class was made up of scribes,

government workers, priests and kings. Middle class was made of merchants, farmers, fisherman, and artisans/skilled workers. The lower class consist of slaves, criminals, and unskilled workers.

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The upper class was mainly priests and higher class man, the middle class was like the fisherman, farmers and skilled workers. the lower class were the slaves or poor people.

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The middle class was the largest. It consisted of merchants, fishers, farmers, and artisans.

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Most early governments were theocracies. A Theocracy is a government that is led by priests and/or other religious figures.

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Ur is part of mesopotamia which is spread apart in Egypt, India, and China.

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Only the most important people in society learned cuneiform, only some upper class people.

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city-states like Sumer, assyria,babylon and Chaldean all had their own gods, although Summerians honored all of their gods

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The upper class consisted of kings, priests, warriors, and government workers.

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Mesopotamia was an empire. An empire is a group of many lands ruled by one leader.

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Upper class were scribes, priests, kings, judges, and government workers. Middle class were Merchants, Farmers, fishermen, artisans/skilled workers
Lower class were slaves, people in debt, and unskilled workers.

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To build large and beautiful cities taxes were raised and so were hours working

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In "The Epic of Gilgamesh" it is stated that Gilgamesh was 3/4 god, the son of a god and a human.

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Babylon was expanded as Hammurabi took over new cities in Mesopotamia.

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Priest were in the upper classes and they were only allowed on the top of the Ziggurat. These Priest were polytheistic

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Different pieces of artwork can be found in places of worship and burial tombs. Hammurabi's Code was written in cuneiform (cutting wedges into damp clay with a sharp reed - a form of writing invented by Sumerians) and still remains to this day

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Upper - Priests, kings, warriors, and government officials.
Middle - Merchants, farmers, fishes, artisans
Lower - Enslaved peoples, workers captured in war, criminals/people who couldn't pay their debt.
These class systems help develop occupation in society and civilization.

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Early civilizations were led by priests. The priests taught people what is good and bad and kept order in the civilization.

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Writing permitted knowledge to be passed down without any sort of corruption.

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Mesopotamian people would write on stelaes, large stone or wooden tablets. These were found in temples, and the most famous of them was the one inscribed with Hammurabi's code.

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The people used symbols to write and do math. The people often wrote about their history. They used  clay pallets to carve everything into.

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There was the hammurabis code which were laws, to benefit peoples behavior or to punish people.

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Relgions emerged to explain their lives and exsistence as monarchs claimed they had the support of the gods.

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Babylon had crazy types of architecture like waterfalls going upwards and hanging gardens. Also Ziggurats were constructed to honor gods but that was a new step in art

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The people in the Upper class were
Priests and Kings. The priests often taught people and kept order in the civilization. Kings made rules and led the people.
Middle class are the farmers, Artists and the people who traded with other people. The artists often made mosaics about different things.
The lower class were slaves that did work all the time for other people

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Sumerians used writing records of their history and information. They did this so that they could pass ideas on, to later generations.

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Hammurabi creates the first code of law to make sure the people of Mesopotamia do not act out against the king or their other citizens.

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The Sumerians used clay tablets to record their lives and their history. The Sumerians made 1,200 characters to describe things

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Sumerian gods had power over nature

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People used Mathematics and Astronomy to measure the sizes of fields and buildings. Place value system of numbers, invented the 360 Degree circle, mapping of the stars, understanding of the moon, and figured out the best time to plant crops and hold religious ceremonies.

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Women were mostly treated the same as men, but they were not considered intelligent enough to master literacy

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Carts were pulled by donkeys, military vehicles with the chariot, potter wheel to make bowls and jars.

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People made sailboats

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developed river travel, and allowed traveling elsewhere for trading.

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mathematicians/scientifically advancing (Zoe H) 

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mathematicians/scientifically advancing (Zoe H) 

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people invented mathematics and created a place value system of numbers. People also mapped out the stars and learned how to understand the moon, which was extremely scientifically advanced for their time.

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Kkushi verma                              In Hammurabi codes if a man strikes a free woman and she loses her fruit of the womb he shall pay 10 shekels of silver, if a man strikes a woman slave and causes her to lose her fruit of the womb he has to pay 2 shekels of silver. This shows how slaves were not valued as much as free people.

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Kkushi verma                              In Hammurabi codes if a man strikes a free woman and she loses her fruit of the womb he shall pay 10 shekels of silver, if a man strikes a woman slave and causes her to lose her fruit of the womb he has to pay 2 shekels of silver. This shows how slaves were not valued as much as free people.

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Sargon was the creator of the first empire. which was run by a political system (AKA the government).

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Art was prevalent in religious places adn burial tombs

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Art was prevalent in religious places adn burial tombs

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Groups were defined by wealth, power, and occupatiojns.

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Theocracy is where instead of a government running the area, a religious leader is running the area.