https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g en-us 2017-10-10 18:59:26 UTC 2017-10-24 19:35:38 UTC hello@padlet.com jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195780842 One of the pieces of geography that made the Mesopotamian's settle in the place they did was because of the rich soil. Another was that the Tigris and Euphrates river. The rich soil that made them settle there. This rich soil was created by the snow that melted from the mountains, that ran down the mountains, then in to the Tigris and Euphrates valley, making the soil richer every time. As thins happen more and more, the soil got more and more rich. This helped them because they could  grow their crops better, and that happened because the soil was easier to till the land, and the more fertile the land, the better plants grow. The other thing that made them settle there is the Tigris and Euphrates river. because these two rivers were there, the Mesopotamian's had a source of water to use for crops, drinking, and traveling. This helped them because they could use boats to travel and trade to other places. This was also good because they created irrigation, and they used the river to help them with that so that they could cut of the flow,  and open it to flood their fields, so they had a more effective way to water their crops. They also gave the Mesopotamian's a source of fresh water to drink, and they could drink that instead of digging wells, and they couldn't drink the salt water of the seas. ]]> 2017-10-10 19:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195780842 jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195780996 The religion that the Mesopotamian's had was a Polytheistic religion. This meant that the Mesopotamian's believed in many gods. There are many gods in this culture. They believed that each god was in control of a different thing, like Shamash, who was the Mesopotamian's sun god, was in control of the sun. That is just one example, but there were many other gods the controlled things like if they would have a good harvest, or is they would have good weather. They also believed that even though they all had the same gods they worshiped, one city would be the home of one god, and that would be the home city of that god. They also believed that the gods came down, and used the Ziggurats as homes to live in when they visited earth.]]> 2017-10-10 19:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195780996 jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781230 The Government of Mesopotamia was vital to the survival of Mesopotamia. This was important because they needed something to make rules and to rule over the people and to judge the people in court and to do other things, like enforce the law. The main people that did that was the King, and the government officials. The King was important to it because he made the laws or the rules of Mesopotamia, and the laws and the rules that the people in the courts and the other enforcers of the laws. Hammurabi’s Code of Laws tell me that Mesopotamia was a harsh and cruel place in some aspects. We see this because in most of the laws, because most of them required something physically happening, like getting you hands cut off, or having to be killed. Although harsh, they were important to Mesopotamia. The Hammurabi's Code of laws  were important to Mesopotamia because they enforced good behavior. This meant that it made things so that people would not do the things that it said not to do, because it would instill a fear in the people to do bad things, because if they did the bad things, they knew that they would be punished. This meant that the people would not do those things, because in one you get your hand cut off, and who wants there hands cut off?]]> 2017-10-10 19:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781230 jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781304 The social levels were as follows, first Kings,  then Government officials and Priests, followed by Artisans, Merchants and Scribes, then Farmers, then lastly Slaves. This was the height or the pyramid of social class. The king was the most important. The king ruled over the land and the people. His job was to make sure the kingdom ran smoothly, and he was the head of the government. He would have made the most money, because a portion of the taxes went to the king, and he also was the head figure of the people, so he would have made a lot. The Government and the Priest's were the next important. The Government officials were the next because they were the enforcers of the kings laws, and they were also the kings advisory's and also helped create the laws and they also helped in the courts to help people if the case was not severe enough to go to the king.  The priest's were the next because they were the people that made the offerings to the gods, so people thought that they were important. These two groups of people would have made a good amount of money because they were doing important things. Then came artisans, merchants, and scribes. The artisans were important because they made things that were subject to their skill, like a Artisan who was focused on food, would make a feast for the king, or make a feast for a wedding. The merchants were important because they brought different products from different places to the residents of a different place. This helped them because they could have a bigger working area because they could get more tools. The scribes were important because they wrote books and scrolls and laws. They were the kings writers. They wrote all of the rules because they were one of the people that could write. This was important because they could write the things that were long that the king did not or the officials write, would go to them, because that all that they did. ]]> 2017-10-10 19:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781304 jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781580 Some types of art that the Mesopotamian's had was, writing, paintings, pottery, and clothing. Some of the artistic forms of writing would have been different and formal styles of writing, plays, stories, songs, and other things that required some sort of script or other thing that involved writing. Paintings would have been the same as today, and they could have also explained a story. Pottery was a form of art, and it was made out of clay and was heated to make it a hardened thing. It would have also held things like food to have a way to store things for the winters and to pickle things as well to make them last longer.]]> 2017-10-10 19:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781580 jjgraham https://padlet.com/jjgraham/ily44stocv0g/wish/195781647 The writing that the Mesopotamian's used was the Babylonian Cuneiform. The Babylonian Cuneiform was made up of the same letters that we have today, or at least had the same amount. The Babylonians were the people that used the Babylonian Cuneiform. The Babylonian Cuneiform was made up of lines and triangles. A example would be Y, which was two lines parallel to each other, and each having two triangles facing down on the tops of each line. That's just one example. This was important because it was really the first source of writing. If the Mesopotamian people had not come up with the writing, we would have no writing. The reason we wouldn't have any source of writing is that all of the writings as in Greek or the English language.

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