MESOPOTAMIA

By Isabel Conde, Paula Tejedor, Pablo Salinas and Sara Marín

6000 BC - 30 BC

INDEX

● Culture -Art Architecture Sculture -Religion -Writing -Historical Place -Astronomy -Food and cloths

-Inventions -Anecdotes● Social Groups● Economy● Political

Organization● Lanscapes

CULTURE

The culture in Mesopotamia is very important.In the culture they have:-The art (architecture, sculpture…)-The religion-Astronomy-Food and clothes…

Art

The art in Mesopotamia is divided in:-Sculpture -Architecture

ArchitectureIn Mesopotamia used little stone and a lot of clay

The Arch The Vault

The Ziggurat have differents things.The priest lived in the Ziggurat and controlled the harvest trade and taxes.

Sculpture

Prince Gudea frieze of Arches Low relief Ashurbanipal (2.120 BC) (500 BC) (2.550-2.500 BC) (668-627 BC)

The stone was a luxury material. There are Egyptian sculptures, sumerian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian

Religion

Mesopotamian people were polytheist. They create in lots of gods. They had one god for thing.

Historical objects.

These are the most important historical objects:

Social groups This is the social group´s pyramid He made laws and organized the army KING Take care of temples NOBLES AND PRIESTS CIVIL SERVANTS AND SCRIBES FARMERS, PEASANTS, CRAFTSMEN AND SOLDIERS SLAVES

Anecdotes

·They didn't believe in afterlife.·A king built the “Hanging Gardens” for his wife.·They had a god for the pick.·They pay their soldiers with good money.

Food and Clothes

Clothes: In Mesopotamia clothes were clear and spacious for the hot in summer.

Food: The most important food in Mesopotamia were the fish. THe meat that they ate were: cows, sheeps...

ECONOMYThe economy of Mesopotamia are two factors:Agriculture: They cultivated: Barley, wheat, peas, olive tree...

Trade: They sell cereals and wooll.They exchange by the barter.

Inventions.

Have:-The wheel-Lunar calendar-Writing-The plow-Adobe brick

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WritingPICTOGRAM:-The first writing system used symbols to represent objects and concepts.The drawing shows how people wrote on clay tablets.-The sumerians used pictograms.

CUNEIFORM:-They were written on tablets of wet clay.-There were 2000 different cuneiform signs.-This writing was development to a person called Pietro Della Valle.

ASTRONOMY

The people used astronomy to guide themselves in their journey

EmpiresAKKADIAN EMPIRE: King Sargon took the control

BABYLONIAN EMPIRE: The city of Babylonia took the control over all the rest of mesopotamian cities

ASSYRIAN EMPIRE: This empire stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

PERSIAN EMPIRE: This empire extended to the Indus River

Political organization

These were the political organization:1º: the king2º: leading group ( priest, army, traders…)3º: free people ( peasants, livestocks…)4º: Slaves

Landscapes

Landscape were green and usually were hot.In winter were more colder than in summer.

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