1. Mesopotamia 10 Criteria

2. Trading Over Long Distances
Trading Routes
Phoenicians sailed all over the Mediterranean trading
Traders/Merchants
Wagons

3. Large Public Buildings
Ziggurat/temples
Hanging Garden of Babylon
Architecture

4. Development of an Art Style
Sculptures of gods and kings
Pottery Wheel
Cylinder Seal
Jewelry
Make-up
Clay Toys
Clay Pottery
Bulls Head of Gold
Decorated Daggers
Metal Works

5. Beginning of Science Medicine Wheel Chariots Irrigation Architecture
Plow
Sewer
Number System Based on #60
Categorized Animals and Plants

6. Ranking of Social Positions
King/Ruler
Priest
Skilled Craftsmen, Merchants, and Traders
Farmers, Laborers, and Freed Men
Slaves

7. Beginning of Government
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Sargon
Kings

8. Producing and Storing Surplus Food
Growing grain, barley, and wheat
Irrigation
Fertile Soil
Plenty of fish and meat

9. System of Writing Cuneiform Alphabet Clay Tablet Pictographs
Cylinder Seals
Scribes
Epics
Mathematics

10. Large Populated Settlements
City-State Ur
Babylon
Empire of Sargon
Urck
Sumer
Assyrian Empire
Hitties
Chaldeans

11. Variety of Jobs Division of Labor Craftsman Merchants Traders Farmers
Kings
Priests
Slaves
Soldiers
Miners
Potters
Scribes