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Sumerian
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Chandler Murphy
Ancient Mesopotamia note table—LEGS
Date
L (Law)
2,500 BC
3,500
invented
Cuneiform
BC
for
5/8/17
Mr. Baskin 6-C
E (Empire)
S (society)
Other ideas
Sources
City-states—
In poor families Women could Our World
Some of the everybody
never have the
largest include worked
same rights as
Ur, Uruk and
men
Eridu
Sumerian
Head of all Sumerian
Empire held city- families
was woman
could
s.
father
not divorce, but
men had to pay
a fine to divorce.
Sargon
was Sons
were In epic of g. he
famous king of taught to be set out on long
city-s.
called heads
and journey
to
Kish----Sargon
daughters were discover
how
created the first taught to be humans could
great empire in wives, mothers, live forever.
history.
businesswomen
War is key to Many
people Mesopotamia
building empire, enjoyed board means
land
most
wars games, others: between
the
however were music
and rivers in Greek
to take control festivals
of Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
Festivals include Sargon
ruled
parades,
Sumer for about
dancing, feasts
56 years
Sumerians also Empire Sargon
story
tellers created ruled for
most
famous 100 y.
The Epic of
Gilgimesh
Grew
wheat,
barley, beans,
onions, lettuce,
cucumbers,
herbs,
palm
trees,
pomegranate
tress.
Made irrigation
to water crops
Herded sheeps,
goats: milk and
wool; cattle: as
work animals,
produced milk &
meat
Tigris
and
Euphrates Rivers
created surplus
for society
Created
Cuneiform: was
written on wet
clay tablets with
reed
pens:
writing: one of
the
earliest
writing systems:
picture writing
Cuneiform had
500 symbols
Babylonian
Empire
1750
BC
B.C.-611 King H. ruled
Babylon,
ordered building
and repairs of
canals, acted as
judge:
using
simple Sumerian
laws to make
decisions.
This code of law
called Code of H.
In code of H.
tells
that
everyone wasn’t
equal
under
code of laws:
Babylonia had
slavery.
Famous
Babylonian
Empire
c.s.
Assyria,
Nineveh, Ashur
Laws of H. were
displayed on six
feet pillars with
a picture of H.
and 200 laws
carved
in
cuneiform
Had
king:
Hammurabi:
controlled all of
Meso
A code of law is
a collection of
written
laws
that apply to
one government
Copies of code
of H. found all
throughout H.’s
empire
Babylonian
Empire
conquered
Sumerian
Empire
H.’s laws dealt
with everything:
laws for divorce,
workers’
pay,
doctors’
fees,
clumsy barbers
too
Assyria
then
began
to
conquer fertile
crescent.
To gain empire
Assyria fought
against
other
city-states.
Soon
Assyria
made a gigantic
empire
conquering
Babylonian
Empire
stretching from
Egypt to Persian
Gulf:
called
Assyrian Empire.
After H. died
Babylonian
empire started
to
weaken:
Ashur
and
Nineveh were
some of the first
city-states
to
break away from
empire
of
Babylonia.
POWs brought
to
Assyrian
Empire’s
growing cities as
slaves:
slaves
worked
farmlands
or
were put to
work on building
projects.
Some prisoners
managed
to
escape
and
return
home:
others started
families
and
lived in Assyria.
Empire- a group of lands and people ruled by one government
All info. “revolves around government”
Primary source document: Code of H.
[So] that the strong may not oppress the weak, to give justice to the orphan and the widow, I have
inscribed my precious words…
If a Freeman has put out the eye of another Freeman, they shall put out his eye.
If he breaks the bone of another Freeman, they shall break his bone.
If he puts out the eye of a Poor Man, or breaks the bone of a Poor Man, he shall pay 1 mina [17.5
ounces] of silver. If he puts out the eye of a Slave of another Freeman, … he shall pay half his [the
slave’s] price.
If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition… if then the dam break and all the fields be
flooded; then shall he… be sold for money [as a slave], and the money shall replace the corn which he
has… ruined.
Secondary source of this primary source: Our world
Location
Date
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Mesopotamia/
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Law
N/A
Empire
Government
Fought to gain N/A
Empire
Society
Source
Looks like they War side of the
had slaves for Standard of Ur
soldiers as well
as soldiers
Used
chariot
for war pulled
by horse
Looks like used
daggers
Looks like they
lost soldiers on
ground
Looks
like
opposing army
is
attacking
other army that
apparently
is
richer by the
looks of it:
better chariots
than opposing
army