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Mesopotamia (Politics (hammurabi's code says that if anybody steals…
Mesopotamia
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Economy!
To buy or trade these goods, the ancient Mesopotamians used a system of barter.
They used barley for local trade. You had to borrow barley from a barley banker. The banker charged very high interest.
Merchants traded food, clothing, jewelry, wine and other goods between the cities.
Because barley was heavy, they used lead, copper, bronze, tin, silver and gold to "buy" things away from their local area.
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Religion
Each person has their own god, who looked after them
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Social strucuture
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the king and priests kept a majority of the slaves but the Sumerians could buy the slaves to work for them
The working class or the lower class wore the same type of garments as the rich only theirs were not the same type of materials
Geography!
In the Northern part of Mesopotamia, river and streams were fed by mountains.
Ancient Mesopotamia was in the same area as the modern day Iraq, it was positioned between two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.
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