Ancient Mesopotamia
Learn the ancient wonders of Mesopotamia.
Geographer
Geographer
4.Mesopotamia is now know as Iraq. The country that we are fighting against right now.
5.Mesopotamia is 6372.69 miles away from. Wow, after reading that it makes me feel a lot safer.
Our Army at a ziggurat in Mesopotamia "Iraq".
This is a picture of the hot climate.
Here is a picture of their wet climate.
Historian
Historian
2.These are the requirements to start a civilization. First step you find land to build a city. Second you need a government and military. Third you need a social structure (economic power). Fourth you need to develop technology. Fifth you need to develop a written language. Sixth you need to have a religion. Last step have a cultural activity.
3.Hammurabi had made the first written laws. He had made 282 laws for daily life. He was also Babylon's king after the city-state Ur was weakened .
5.Gilgamesh is a ancient king of Uruk. People say he was the first superhero. People also said he was part god. They also said he had many special powers.
Here is Hammurabi laws
Here is a stele of the Law Code (sorry I couldn't get the whole picture).
Agriculturalist
Agriculturalist
2.When the fields were poisoned it was hard for them to grow crops. They had abandon those fields and that would be one more field gone.
3. They ate bread and drunk a lot of beer (up to a gallon a day). They would sometimes drink cow milk but because of the hot climate it would sour. They also ate vegetable stew, fish, fruits (apples, pears, grapes, figs, quinces, plums, apricots, mulberries, melons, and pomegranates), and pistachio nuts. Cakes were made for special occasion it was made out of butter, cheese, dates, flour, and raisins.
5.First you have to flood your field from your irrigation ditch. Second you must run a plough through your field to break up the soil. Third pull the harrow around the field to make it smooth and level. Fourth you must sow the seeds(spread the seeds). Fifth you water your fields three times after you have sown it. Sixth you gather it together then take it to the threshing house.
Here is a picture of wheat. That is one of the things they eat.
Here is a irrgation ditch.
Here is a pile of fish.
Archeaologist
Archeaologist
2. The wheel is important because if we didn't have it how would we have cars, trucks, trains, plane, and etc.
3. Cuneiform was the written language in Mesopotamia. Babylonian invented cuneiform.
5.A ziggurat is temple. The Sumerians believed that powerful gods in the sky. They built a ziggurat to have religious ceremonies for the gods.
Here is one of their of inventions.
Here is another of their inventions.
Here is my initials in cuneiform.
Here is a seeder plow another of their inventions.
The sail another of their inventions.
Here is a ziggurat. That is really big.