Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia
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Geography

• Fertile Crescent
• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Agricultural Development
• Flooding in Sumer

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Towns

• Individual City-States
• Conflicts Between City-States
• Government (from the assemblies to the Lugal)

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Sumerian City-State
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Religion

• Theories Gods and Creation
• Ziggurats

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Writing

• Pictograms Ideograms - Cuneiform

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Education

• Only boys of wealthy parents received an
  education
• Taught reading, writing, and arithmetic
• Teachers used severe discipline (beating)
• After twelve years of schooling, students
  graduated to become prestigious scribes
• Schools were called Edubbas, or tablet houses
  (from writing)

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Economy

• Trade Markets
• Farming
• Inventions
• Professions

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Society

• Social Structure
• Housing
• Role of Women / Marriage
• Culture
• Epic of Gilgamesh

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Invaders

• Akkadians Sargon I
• Amorites Hammurabi
• Hittities Iron

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