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GRAPES of Mesopotamia - Coggle Diagram
GRAPES of Mesopotamia
Social Structure 
Farmers farmed crops which would be used to feed the city and the surplus would be used to trade for raw materials.
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Scribes made important documents such as public records for the trade and the judicial system to function.
Merchants and Artisans traded grain, cloth and crafts for important materials such as stone, wood. and metal so that the city could grow using their food and art surplus.
Priests help make rules and assist the ruler of the city as well as communicate civilians wishes to the gods.
Kings and Queens were the most important people in a city. They made rules, important decisions, started wars, and started new ideas.
Achivements
Some of the leading achievements and/contributions of the civilization were creating cuneiform to communicate, forming irrigation ditches to carry water to their fields, they crated a large trade center, which is where they gained many of the resources the land didn't naturally provide. The 60 second minute, 60 minute hour, and 360-degree circle. The Babylonians began to observe the stars and divided the year into 12 periods (known as months) and named them. They named the days of the week after their seven gods.They established a justice system (the Code of Hammurabi), which eventually evolved into the standardized justice system. Advanced mathematics were also developed in Mesopotamia. The wheel and bronze-made items were heavily utilized in Mesopotamia.
These achievements are significant because these achievements became the basis for daily things. We still use the 12 divisions of the year and names of the days of the week. Astrology is something that many people study and zodiac signs are things that people believe in or use for entertainment. The concept of time is something that we use daily and controls everyone's lives, and cuneiform has developed into at least 14 major languages.
Politics
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Economics
The cities started doing producing their own food, mostly being wheat, apple, and potatoes and went to trade with the people of the mountains and the desert. Later on they also started to trade crafted tools, grain and cloth and in exchange they would receive raw materials such as stone, wood and metal. So they would make a deal there and then go back to their cities however it started to get really difficult for a person to carry the stuff alone so that was one they created wheels and sails. They also created the plow to help with digging the field to plant the foods. They were also one of the first to use bronze in order to make weapons. This evolution was through trade and developed city states' economies.
Religion
In Mesopotamia they grew prosperous from the surplus food produced in their farms, the farmers believed that the success of their crops depended upon blessing of the gods. However each one believed in a different god, for example the god of rain and they would have conflicts with each other or they believed in all of them. That was when they created temples to ensure the Gods presence and a place for the people go in order for their blessing. The priests would act as a go-betweens with the Gods, that's when polytheism became a thing, a belief in more than a God and other religions started to appear. In that time the priests gained a lot of importance because they started managing the irrigation system, so demanding a portion of every farmer's crop as taxes so they also would participate in the government, becoming wealthy people. The people believed that they were just servants of the Gods, that the Gods were both immortal and all-powerful. They thought that by having floods, strike, enemy destroying a city, the Gods were angry and in order to keep them happy they built a huge temple called ziggurats for them and offered rich sacrifices of animals, food and wine. It affected peoples life as that going the temples was something that would join all social classes together for one thing. Religion also helped in advancement's for example the seven days of the week were named after 7 gods.
Geography
Disadvantages of the climate were unpredictable flooding combined with periods of drought. The land didn’t come with any natural barriers for defense, and natural resources were limited. Since Mesopotamia was located in between 2 rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, they had access to water and rich soil, which greatly assisted agriculture. Being at one of the most major trade centers was also an advantage of living in Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia was located in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Now, it'd be split between Iraq, Syria, and Kuwait.
Advantages of Mesopotamia's climate and geography were that the land there was very fertile. Mesopotamia only had two seasons, a rainy season and a dry season. During the rainy season, the rain occasionally flooded the two rivers. Because of the excess water, crops would sometimes drown in the excess water. The northern part of Mesopotamia had numerous hills and received a lot of rain, but the southern part had flat land and received a lot of sunlight.