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Social Studies Reading Page 66-85 (Hammurabi"s Code of Laws (The code…
Social Studies Reading Page 66-85
Section 1:The geography of ancient Mesopotamia.
The land between two rivers.
follows the course of tigris and euphrates river until they merge at the Persian Gulf.
Mesopotaiman tigris river swit river because it flowed fast.
Both rivers flowed unperdictily
The rivers depositivly silt, which was good for farming
Farming thrived in the river valley
Farming in the fertile cresent
Farming began as early as 9800 B.C in the Fartile Cresent.
Farmers have to deal with hot summees in unreliable rainfall.
The regions fertile soils promised pleniful crops, such as wheat, barley, and figs.
For watering fields, they used human made systems
Developed the ox driven plow.
The great agriculture system allowed a great civalazation to develop.
Section 3: Religion in Sumer
Sumer
Farming in the Fertile Crescent
The region’s fertile soils promised plentiful crops, such as wheat, barley, and figs—if the people could come up with a way to control the water supply.
Around 3500 B.C.,Mesopotamia’s first civilization arose in Sumer , an area in the southern part of the region.
Section 4: Sumerian Writing
Artifact
Scribes used reeds, or sharpened blades of grass, to carve the wedge-shaped cuneiform symbols—600 in all—into wet clay tablets that were then dried. This tablet describes a flood scene from The Epic of Gilgamesh, explained in more detail below-from the book.
Epic
The epic is oldest story recorded, the unknown author writes about the king, Uruk and his fried going on an adventure.
Creation Story
This story by an author that is unknown explains how the world was formed. In this story the chief god, Marduk creates the 12 month calendar.
Section 2: city-states developed.
Centers of Civalazation
Period around 3000 B.C is called the bronze age.
These resources had to be a through trade.
lacked important natural resources, tin and copper.
Surplus foods also led to growth in population.
Kings arose and became the leaders.
A few peoples jobs were to handle the taxes.
Sumerian society was organized by social class
The scale went from kings all the way down to Sumerian slaves.
Sumer
Around 3500 B.C, mesopotamia's first civilization, sumer arose.
Sumer was made up of a dozen advanced self governing city states.
Most of the city states were built on the tigris and the euphrates rivers.
Frequent wars were fought between city- states to protect fertile land limted.
Hammurabi"s Code of Laws
On a plaque that has the king and the god on top
Mesopatamia is an advanced culture
Gods give laws to the king and the king puts laws on the people
About 300 laws
Actions and consecoinsins
An eye for an eye (literally)
The plaque is a reminder that Mesopotamia was very advanced for it's time
Hammurabi became the sixth king of babylon in 1792 B.C
first actually powerful leader
Was a skillful ruler, but he is best remembered for his Code of Laws.
Hammurabi made the city way more advanced
The code of laws was often aplied based on a persons social class.
The code of laws marked a major step forward for civilization.
The legacy of Mesopotamia
Had a system of goverment which we still goes on today
Started written language which still goes on today.
Made laws which we still have today
Started making sorwds and bonze wepons.
Made the ox drown pl
Made the wheel
First to develop calender
Built a temple/ masterpiece, the ziggurat