Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
8 Features of Civilization of Mesopatonia - Coggle Diagram
8 Features of Civilization of Mesopatonia
Cities
Shared same cultures, but different government
City-State: each city and the surrounding land it controlled formed a city state.
EX: Uruk, Kish, Lagash, Umma, and Ur. surrounded by fields of barkely and wheat
Complex Religions
Religions of many Gods
earliest government controlled by the temple priests
The Priests: go-between with the Gods
Polytheism: the belief in more than one God
"The vaging flood that has no rival
believes Gods doing the sam ething as humans do
Social Classes
Kings, land holders, priests
Wealthy merchants
People worked with their hands
Slaves
Sumerian Women Worked: merchants, farmers, artisans (Could join priesthood)(upper-class women can read and write)
Central Government
-earliest governments were controlled by the temple priests
from the ziggural the priests mariaged the irritation system
priests demanded a portion of every farmers crop as taxes
Priests did not lead the city in the war
Job/Labor Speciatization
Jobs that required special skills
Specialize
built houses
sewed clothes
create pottery
building pubic projects
Art and Archtecture
zigurrat
first larlge scale
temples
arch, canals, aqueducts
Pubilc Works
Dams and Dikes
canals
ziggurats
Record Keeping
Cuneiform, the earliest known writing system, was developed around 3000 BCE in Mesopotamia
scribes marked damp clay tablets with cuneiform
Writing was inscribed on clay tablets.