Mesopotamia by mateo espinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt Mateo Espinel en-us 2018-10-10 13:30:32 UTC 2018-10-15 13:04:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/319578968/5e76dd8f5f62888d878fdbdd6fcdb76e/the_fertile_crescent_1_728.jpg msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291233824 One geographic feature that helped cities in Mesopotamia settle was the water that they had close to them. Another geographic feature that helped cities in Mesopotamia settle was that there was a lot of places to plant crops and to harvest plants.]]> 2018-10-10 13:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291233824 Geography msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291444941 This is a map of Mesopotamia
The geography of Mesopotamia helped survive Mesopotamia because they have water from the lakes/rivers and because they have space to grow crops.  ]]> 2018-10-10 19:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291444941 Organized Government msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291447034 Government and laws are important because that is how we respect our society and be fare. Also to keep our society clean and nice.  Hammurabi's codes of laws tells me that Mesopotamia is not a very nice country but is working on it. Some of Hammurabi's codes was important to Mesopotamia because with out them Mesopotamia would be a bad place to live. These codes of laws are important to day because there are some that are like ours and the only reason it is like that is because we used some of Hammurabi's codes of law. I think that the code of law helped resolve the conflicts that was to be addressed. This type of government helped Mesopotamia survive because if there wasn't laws then the world would be like a war. ]]> 2018-10-10 19:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291447034 Class Divisions msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291458684 The types of class divisions in Mesopotamia where there where Kings and priest that where the upper class. There where Scribes, Merchants and Artisans, and Commoners were the middle class. The last class was the lower class which slaves where in. A skill for the upper class might be to order someone to do something and make sure that the palace is good. A level of education for the middle class might be to write and draw. A skill for the lower class might be to be strong and listen to the king. The classes of levels where created in Mesopotamia to divide the richness and the poorness.  The benefits of being in the upper class is that you tell everybody what to do and you get to relax, the drawbacks of being in the upper class is that you have to focus on your palace and not do anything else. The benefits for the middle class are that you have important stuff to do and cool stuff to do, but the drawbacks of the middle class are that you have to work and you have to get orders.  The benefits for the lower class is that you are with your family working, but the drawbacks for the lower class are that you have to work really hard and that you get hit with rope.  ]]> 2018-10-10 19:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291458684 Religion msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291706547 The type of religion that Mesopotamia had was to worship gods and give offering to them. One belief they had was if they have good offering and good prayers than the gods will give fortune to the city. Another belief they had was that if they make the god mad than floods, war, and other disasters will happen. The third belief they had was that only priests knew how to communicate with the gods.  a ziggurat is a type of massive stone structure built in ancient Mesopotamia.It has the form of a terraced compound of successfully receding stories or levels. Each city in Mesopotamia had its on primary god. At the top of the ziggurat was a shrine of the god, they built it high so the shrine can be as close to the heavens. The core of the ziggurat is made of mud bricks covered with baked brick laid with bitumen, a naturally occurring tar. Each of the baked bricks measured about 11.5 x 11.5 x 2.75 inches and weighed as much as 33 pounds. It was located in the Dhi Qar Province in prsent day Iraq and was built around 2100 B.C. Today, after four thousand years later, it is still standing in the middle of the desert. So yes there is some that still exist.  ]]> 2018-10-11 13:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291706547 Art msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291713098
The art forms for the first picture are that it was made by stone and they carved it to make people. The first picture shows that people where in battle fighting other cities.
The art forms for the second picture are that it is made by stone and was carved by hand.  The second picture shows that people in Mesopotamia are giving offering and are worshiping the god.  It is important to study art from an ancient civilization because you know how it was to draw in the past and how life was in the past. 


]]> 2018-10-11 13:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291713098 Writing Systems msespinel https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291928998 The form of writing that was used early in Mesopotamia was pictograms that was usually used  to communicate basic information about crops and taxes.  The form of writing in Mesopotamia was cuneiform and the people who wrote the writing are called scribes.  The purpose of writing is to tell people story's that happened in the past and another purpose is that with out writing royal monuments would not have been carved with cuneiform.  ]]> 2018-10-11 19:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/msespinel/9t0ilemsyrkt/wish/291928998