City-States in Mesopotamia

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City-States in Mesopotamia

Rivers=Life Blood Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Flow From modern day Turkey To Persian Gulf

Geography Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent Greek=“Land Between the Rivers” Fertile plains Rain=Flooding Flooding=Silt Silt=Farmland Wheat & Barley (villages grow)

Environmental Challenges Settling & farming began Southern Mesopotamia Sumerians 3500 B.C. Mixed w/ farms Language b/c dominant Attracted Good soil Flat Swampy Land of Sumer

Disadvantages Flooding = unpredictable rivers Sumer small region Becomes desert Little/no rain Sumer small region Massachusetts Open plain Clusters of reed huts Natural Resources limited No supply of stone, wood, metal

Solutions Irrigation ditches Defense (mud make city walls) Traded grain, cloth, & tools w/ mountain people Solutions = ? Organization Leadership Laws Government

Sumerians create City-States 5 characteristics of civilizations 3000 B.C. had # of cities Uruk Kish Lagash Umma Ur What is City-State?

Ziggurat Center of city Place of worship Government center (pay taxes) Priests have power Political Religious

Sumerian Culture Religion Polytheistic Enlil (most powerful god) Udugs (wickedness gods) Cause disease Misfortune Any human trouble 3,000 gods Like humans We are servants Angry gods = natural disasters Sacrifices Death = “Land of no return”

Sumerian Social Classes

Science & Technology Inventions Bronze Writing Known maps 2300 B.C. Wheel Sail Plow Bronze Writing Known maps 2300 B.C. Recorded scientific investigations Geometry & arithmetic # system based on 60 60 seconds = 1 minute 360°

Empire Builders Wars City-states @ war w/ one another 3000-2000 B.C. Weaken state Culture survived

Sargon of Akkad 2350 B.C. defeats Sumer From North Semitic language = related to Hebrew & Arabic 1st Empire Mediterranean coast in West To present day Iran in East Lasted 200 years Civil War Famine Invasions

Babylonian Empire 2000 B.C. nomadic warriors (Amorites) invade Overwhelm Sumerians Babylon b/c capital Hammurabi 1792-1750 B.C. (peak)

Hummurabi’s Code Uniforming code in kingdom Collected Existing rules Judgment Laws

Code cont. Engrave in stone Places throughout empire 282 Laws Community Family relations Business conduct Crime Laws apply to everyone different punishments Rich & poor Men & women Eye for an Eye Significance Government responsible