Davila 6 component mesopotamia by gwendolyn davila https://padlet.com/gmdavila/6cfe5ut3q8m6 Made with charm en-us 2017-10-12 15:01:44 UTC 2023-02-19 03:14:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Geography gmdavila https://padlet.com/gmdavila/6cfe5ut3q8m6/wish/196470097
  • Two  geographic features that helped cities settle in Mesopotamia were:  Mediterranean Sea, Mountains
  • One reason Mediterranean Sea was important to Mesopotamia was Helped with water source and Another reason this feature was important was also connected to other civilizations
  • One reason Mountains was important to Mesopotamia was Snow melting brought fresh water to the rivers Another reason this feature was important was also created a plateau.
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  • Two reasons why government/laws are important because if we didn’t had laws people will do whatever they what.   Government makes the laws.   
  • Hammurabi’s Code of Laws tells me that  Mesopotamia people behave. 
    • Explain why Hammurabi’s Code of Laws was important to Mesopotamia AND why it is important today because it is good to have laws because people will not the directions.  
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  • Class divisions were created in Mesopotamia because...
  • The class divisions that were present in Mesopotamia were: 
    1. At the top -- Kings and government 
    2. Just Below King/Ruler -- Priests
    3. In the Middle -- Artisans, Merchants and Scribes
    4. At the bottom -- Farmers
    5. At the bottom -- Slaves
    • What were the rights and responsibilities of each of these social classes?
    1. Kings and government Lead the civilization
    2. Priests Made offerings to the gods 
    3. Artisans, Merchants and Scribes Artisans are craftspeople who specialized in creating goods Merchants traded with other people and other civilizations Scribes wrote things for the civilization
    4. Farmers Peasants were farmers who grew food and gave surplus to merchants  
    5. Slaves--Slaves were prisoners or people who owed debts
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  • The type of religion Mesopotamia had was Polytheistic-
    • Three important beliefs of their religion were Each god/goddess was in charge of a something like fresh water, healing or farming and Mesopotamia shared gods, but it was believed that each god lived in one city also Large monument (pyramid) for the gods built in the center of the cities.

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  •  Two  examples of art in Mesopotamia were mesopotamia had bakers, iron workers, potters, and weavers. Mesopotamians had a form of writing known as cuneiform. scribes, or public writers, became important members of society.
  • The reasons they may have had this art was artisans, or craftspeople, specialized in producing particular goods.Also writing is a way to to communicate and literature 

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  • The form of writing used in Mesopotamia was called Cuneiform-
  • The people who used it were farmers,merchants,the government.   It looked like wedge shapes on clay tablets.
  • Two reasons this writing was important was because helped record things like crops and write down the laws.
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