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Social structure

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 15:31:16 UTC

Evidence #1

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 15:35:49 UTC

Social structure pyramid. How the different classes ranked in the Mesopotamia social structure.

Evidence #2 The reason of social structure

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 15:38:33 UTC

"provide common understanding, community, purpose and security for all of their members"

Reasoning #1

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 15:51:23 UTC

The social structure pyramid Shows how the mesopotamia set up their civilization and made it organized. It also shows how they knew who did what and what was supposed to happen and when it was supposed to happen.

Claim

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 15:57:36 UTC

Social structure is the most important part of a civilization because it organizes the civilization and makes people know what to do.

reasoning #2

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 16:06:19 UTC

This shows what social structure does for the civilization. It shows how it supply's basic needs. Also how they incorporate it into a civilization and made it work.

Counter claim reasoning

864513_1 — 2024-10-07 16:09:00 UTC

Some people might pick food supply because food is necessary in life. They might also argue without a stable food supply the whole civilization would die of starvation. The reason social structure is better is because social structure establishes a stable food supply because the peasants and slaves are farmers.

Evidence #3

864513_1 — 2024-10-08 15:45:25 UTC

"most were involved in farming. Others were healers, weavers, potters, shoemakers, teachers and priests or priestesses. The highest positions in society were kings and military officers."

Reasoning #3

864513_1 — 2024-10-08 15:55:38 UTC

Evidence #3 shows how the lower class did more of the dirty work like cleaning and farming and how the upper class had luxury life's and they did easier jobs.

Picture of the Mesopotamia social structure

864513_1 — 2024-10-08 16:00:02 UTC

This shows the people higher in their social structure looking down on the people lower in the social structure that are working.

Hammurabi's code

864513_1 — 2024-10-08 19:16:34 UTC

Hammurabi's code were basically the laws of Mesopotamia and they helped the civilization function and it kept order. It relates to social structure because the rules were different and about different things depending on your class.

Map of mesopatamia

864513_1 — 2024-10-09 15:19:52 UTC

Shows were Mesopotamia is

Counter claim evidence

864513_1 — 2024-10-09 15:25:48 UTC

If you look at the pyramid it shows that there are farmers and it shows how they are lower class and there are a lot of them. It also shows how there are merchants on the pyramid. Those both provide food showing that social structure is more important that food supply.

Being the top of the social structure pyramid

864513_1 — 2024-10-09 15:54:42 UTC

"Although kings were not viewed as gods, they were considered to be appointed by the gods." This shows how people the kings were like gods and were appointed to the gods.

Being at the bottom of the social structure pyramid

864513_1 — 2024-10-09 15:57:25 UTC

"Male slaves worked in agriculture or their owner's business, while female slaves worked as domestic servants. In ancient Mesopotamia, owners could use their slaves in credit to settle debts." This shows how being at the bottom of the social structure pyramid or being a slave was in Mesopotamia.

Being in the middle of the social structure pyramid

864513_1 — 2024-10-09 16:00:50 UTC

"Merchants in ancient Mesopotamia conducted trade they brought goods from one place to another and sold them". This shows how merchants traveled and played an important role in Mesopotamia and they weren't really treated bad.