MESOPOTAMIA
Government
Organiztion of Mesopotamia Goverment
PRIEST
- Powerful
- In-charge
- Made the
- gods happy
- Shaved heads
UPPER
RICH PEOPLE
1. MEN (Wore/had)
- Skirts
- Long Hair
- Curly Mustaches
- Long Beards
2. Women (wore)
- Long Hair
- Dresses
LOWER
- Average person
- hard worker
SLAVES
- WORKED FOR THE KING
- WORKED FOR THE TEMPLES
- WORKED FOR THE WEALTHY
Mesopotamia & Today
1.Mesopotamia
- If a boy hits his dad his hands will get cut off!!!
- eye for an eye.
- if you kill some one you get a death sentence.
- If a boy hits his dad he might get grounded.
- If you were to blind someone today you might pay for there medical bill.
- If you kill someone you will go to jail for a certain amount of time.
How did Hammurabi change how government was conducted?
Hammurabi changed the government by making 282 laws Some of the laws are really harsh and unreasonable.