Mesopotamia
economy
politics
social
Technological
crops, fish, and beered
trade: cooking oil, pottery, leather goods, baskets, textiles, and jewelry and importing Egyptian gold, Indian ivory and pearls, Anatolian silver, Arabian copper, and Persian tin.
taxes: they collected mostly food for trade
where are they now?
they are in Iraq
what is there time span
c. 3100 BC-539 BC to the fall of Babylon
wheel, the plow, the chariot, the weaving loom, irrigation systems, and written language.
They believed in The three main gods were Ea (Sumerian: Enki), the god of wisdom and magic, Anu (Sumerian: An), the sky god, and Enlil (Ellil), the god of earth, storms and agriculture and the controller of fates.
how was the king chosen?:
A Sumerian list of kings (some real and some mythical), says that kingship “descended from heaven.” It was a gift from the gods and the king was therefore divinely chosen.
There are 4 classes, priests and the king aka the highest, upper-class rich people in the city, lower-class poor people, slaves criminals of war/prisoners.
What do i know?
The MESOPOTAMIA are the first civilisation ever recorded.
They believed in gods
They traded
They had slaves