Transcript Mesopotamia - Online Campus

Mesopotamia
Geography
Fertile Crescent
 Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
 Agricultural Development
 Flooding in Sumer
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Towns
 Individual
City-States
 Conflicts Between City-States
 Government (from the
assemblies to the Lugal)
Sumerian City-State
Religion
Theories – Gods and Creation
 Ziggurats
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Writing
Pictograms – Ideograms - Cuneiform
Education
Only boys of wealthy parents received an
education
 Taught reading, writing, and arithmetic
 Teachers used severe discipline (beating)
 After twelve years of schooling, students
graduated to become prestigious scribes
 Schools were called Edubbas, or tablet
houses (from writing)
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Economy
Trade Markets
 Farming
 Inventions
 Professions
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Society
Social Structure
 Housing
 Role of Women / Marriage
 Culture
 Epic of Gilgamesh
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Invaders
 Akkadians
 Amorites
– Sargon I
–
Hammurabi
 Hittities – Iron