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MESOPOTAMIA (Legacies (Ziggurats, Trade, Irrigation, Cuneiform, Writing,…
MESOPOTAMIA
Legacies
Ziggurats
Trade
Irrigation
Cuneiform
Writing
Wheel
Transportation
Mathematics
Prosperous living based on agriculture
Different city states
Sumer
first city state
created cuneiform writing
created wheel
Developed trading (bartering)
Akkad
Sargon the Great (Unified lower Mesopotamia)
Conquered by the barbarians
Babylonia
Hammurabi´s law code
first law code ever inscribed in stone
Developed Mathematics
Assyria
ruled by fear
united ALL Mesopotamia
merchants made guilds
Lands started to have a property// not only priests
Neo-Babylonia
King Nebuchadnezzar
King created Gardens of Babylon for her homesick wife
Fell in 539 BC for the Persians
TYPES OF WRITING
Ideograms
Represent ideas with drawings
Pictograms
Represent things or actions with drawings
Phonetics
Represent sounds
GILGAMESH
First known work of literature.
Ziggurats
Large temples dedicated to the god of the city