Come Visit Mesopotamia
by: Forest and Ethan
Sumer
- Sumer has beautiful architecture.
- Look at cuneiform (the first writing system
- See where the king en-cakanca-ana lived.
- See who Enlil is the God of the Sumerians
Akkadian
- The Akkadian noble leader was Sargon
- The Akkadian built roads
- They had wheels for transportation
- The Akkadian died because of a a major drought
Babylonia
- See what Hammurabi's code did
- see what instruments people played for Lyre
- Look at the fields the Babylonians plowed
- look st the huge stone structures that have Hammurabi's code on it
Assyria
- Look at the government of the Assyria called Ashurbanipal
- look at sculptures made of gold, clay, and copper
- notice the advanced irrigation systems
- The Assyria people had iron weapons
Neo-Babylon
- The neo-Babylon had a government called Bebuchadnezzar
- They invented the sundial to tell time.
- They made carved pillars called Steles
- Had a temple to worship gods called a Zigguat