Friday, September 30, 2011

Life in Mesopotamia

First of all, Art. The Mesopotamian people created ritual objects, Objects of state, and personal objects. The ritual objects were used to hope to bring fertility to women and crops. The other figures were used to represent symbolic idols.
Society was very organized and was ruled as a hieracrchy. They had this irrigation system that required a lot of hard work. The system lead to much larger communities but the hard work was a setback.
One important factor of the political system was Hammurabi's Code of Law. THis was important because it brought control to his empire His system was like an "eye for an eye" type of law.
In Mesopotamia, they were the first people to develop a writing system. Since it was first developed only "special" people could use the system. Now writing has develop to such an extent that anyone can read
The Mesopotamians were among the first people to develop a religion They used ritual and religious figures to represent gods and they would hope those figures would help them
Due to Mesopotamia being in between the Tigris and the Euprathes and being one of the first civilizations, they depended mostly on agriculture. They also developed into animal products and grains.

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