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MESOPOTAMIA - CORE #2 Mesopotamia CORE 2 Mesopotamia has had a great impact on our life today, they left us many inventions and ideas. They left us ideas about government and agriculture and economics. Mesopotamia is really an amazing civilization.Mesopotamia is the best because of all their achievements and inventions. Ancient Mesopotamia had some of the best geographic features, here are some of them. Ancient Mesopotamia is in Asia, and is around present day Iraq. The __Tigris__  river and the __Euphrates__ river flow around there and Mesopotamia is right between those two rivers.(The two rivers were a very important part of the Mesopotamian civilization. They provided water to drink, transportation and water to bath in). Mesopotamia means land between two rivers. Mesopotamia is divided into two parts. The Northern part and the Southern part.The southern part is made up of marshy area. The northern part is made up of hilly land. Mesopotamia was located in the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent included Lebanon Jordan parts of Iraq Iran Turkey Syria and Israel.  The geography for Mesopotamia was very important to the civilization.  Mesopotamia invented the wheel. They had merchants and scribes as well. They had very strict schools. Mesopotamia was polytheistic. This meant that they believed in many gods Mesopotamia is known for the oldest wheel. Although some archaeologist believe it was invented in Asia the oldest one was found in Mesopotamia . We still use the wheel today that was invented many years ago. Without the wheel we would not be where we are today. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mesopotamia

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mesopotamia had the best political system of its time.Here are some reasons why I think they are so good. During the Babylonian times while we were ruled by king Hammurabi, we had a set of laws and rules called the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Code of Hammurabi__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Code of Hammurabi__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">was a set of 282 laws and rights that was to be followed by each and every citizen of Babylonia. The most remembered and notable law was ‘an eye for an eye’ which basically meant that if you broke someones leg in something like a bar fight, the government would break your leg to make you feel what you made the other person feel. This was good because it made you think twice before you hurt someone. During the Assyrian control, we had one of the strongest armies(if not the strongest) in the known world. We made many conquests Throughout the land near us and was one of the most successful conquerors of their time. We made about 2 conquests through Judah. The first run through Judah only left Jerusalem standing. This was like the 2nd one too. Before the Assyrians came, we only had war about small things like land disputes. I feel these wars made our country so great because the only way we could win all these wars would have been from out superior intellect and prowess. Our political class system was based on kings and high priests ruling. Kings were the highest in political power with high priests directly under. I guess you could think of this kind of like a president and a vice president. That is how it influenced us today. I think that this strong political system made us a great country that made us superior to all the others. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mesopotamia had the best economic system because <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">they <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">had a strong system for trading and jobs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In Mesopotamia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">most important <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exports and imports <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that they shipped <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">around the world or to other civilizations and some of the imports that would bring in, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">were silver, gold, oil, wheat, barley, and textiles. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This made them better because this meant that they had good relations with other countries around us. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The main <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and most important job in Mesopotamia was probably <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the king and the queen in ancient Mesopotamia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> T <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">heir was to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> declare and end wars for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">their country. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> They also had a blacksmith who would make swords and other metal objects that could be used like a sword <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blacksmith also created <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a wheel, they would mostly use copper or silver to make the wheel or anything else that they could use. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Their <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">imports were precious medals like gold and silver and even copper. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">T <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">i <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">r imports <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">were items <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> such as semi-precious stones like Lapis Lazuli and carnelian. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mesopotamia was very important back then because they invented the wheel and they used that wheel to make other things to harvest the fields and kids toys. Without Mesopotamia some of the other civilizations would not be where they where. Mesopotamia gave other civilizations gold and silver, but other civilizations also gave us a lot of supplies, too. In the trading world without one civilization, we would not be where we are today. The all had one special tool that the other civilizations did not have. If you would take Mesopotamia out of the trading world it would not fit all together like they are suppose. So you have to have all the civilizations to have everything run smoothly, so without Mesopotamia it would not have ran very smooth back then. Mesopotamia was very important in the economics world back then. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Back in Ancient Mesopotamian times, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #20124d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> were one of the first civilizations to have a written language, which was a wonderful invention back then. Did you know that their written language was known as cuneiform? It was a language that consist of pictographic symbols. It was one of the first written languages to be invented. It became a language in about 5000 B.C.E. They wrote it in soft pieces of clay with pointed reeds. They kept an excellent list of objects, such as, they kept a list of the items in their house. They even kept a list of all the kings that had ruled. Their lists are very helpful to us now a days. The only problem is cuneiform is sometimes very confusing and hard to read. Without them we may never have know what kings had ruled, or maybe we might never have a language like English. They were polytheis <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tic <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, meaning they believed in more than one god. They thought that the world was ran by the gods. One of the most important god was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Ea__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. She was the god of wisdom and water. They would wash and clean the statues of their gods before and after they ate every meal. They thought if they did something wrong the gods would punish them. So they would try to do everything right and thought that they would reward them with something. This has helped us because we know they were very religious. They also left a record of their gods so we know what type of gods they had and what the gods did. Back then, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">it was very rare for a girl to go to school. It was mostly only boys. This was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> called <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__edubba.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The teachers that taught were very strict, if they did not do perfect, they would get whipped. Sometimes a girl in a royal family would be sent to school, because the family had enough money to send her to school. Most of the kids, boys and girls, that were send to school, wanted to go because they knew that if they could learn to write, they would get a job. The scribes in the city would write the price for people at the market when someone wanted to sell an item. This is important because we still have schools today and now both boys and girls go to school. This make our civilization even more important than the others because some civilizations did not even have a school for kids to learn at but our civilization did.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You see Mesopotamia is a very interesting civilization that contributed so much to our life today and they deserve to be exhibited in your museum. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Without Ancient Mesopotamia, we wouldn’t be where we are today. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mesopotamian Religion didn’t believed in after life but they did believed that all good and bad people go under-ground as ghosts and eat dirt. They’re religion also believed that they were servant of god. Mesopotamia invented the wheel,plow,irrigation system and the sailboat. The priests read the livers of chickens or lambs to see what the gods want for sacrifice. Priests controlled the irrigation systems and also had more power than the king and queen. Mesopotamia was the first civilization and the Mesopotamians king order the constructions of the Hanging Gardens for his wife because she grew up in the mountains and she got home sick. Mesopotamia was made up of individual City-States controlled by different powers. They will eventually attack each other and end up under 1 ruler. The people will retaliate and go back to being city-states. Each city-states has it’s own god. In Mesopotamia religion there are 4 main gods of Earth,Water,Air and the Heavens and there were 3,000 lesser gods and each represents an everyday item like Pickaxe and if u were mining and the Pickaxe slipped and fell on your foot,the god of Pickaxe hated you.

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