Ziggurats

By: Alexa

• Ziggurats were like a temple.
• Almost every city-state had a ziggurat.
• They were usually made from bricks of mud.
• They were they center of every city-state.
• Usually, a ziggurat was used to worship the god that was unique to that city-state.
• Ziggurats were very large.

                                                                      Homes

By: Alexa

• Families in Mesopotamia used the natural resources around them to build their homes.
• Upper class families had two-story homes.
• Middle class families had one-story houses.
• Lower class families had small shack like structures.
• Permanent homes were a huge advantage because Mesopotamians could store heavy tools in their homes.

Achivements of Mesopotamia

By: Sage

• Mesopotamia created so many things that we use today like…………
• The world’s first ever ziggurats.
• The most amazing thing they created was a way of writing, if they hadn’t created writing I probably wouldn’t be able to write what I’m writing right now!

The Look

 By: Hailey

• The look was VERY different.
• There as wall around every city-state.
• There was three main parts to the city-state(s).
• The rich or worked with the ziggurat, live in two story homes
• The less important people lived in one story homes.
• Slaves worked for the rich people who lived in two story homes.

Daily Life

By: Alexa

• Daily Life in Mesopotamia mostly consisted of work.
• There were a lot of jobs to be done.
• Mesopotamians wore elaborate clothing.
• Mesopotamians loved to eat!
• The Mesopotamians staple foods were barley and wheat, but they liked meat the most.
• They ate many different kinds of meat, such as beef, pork, duck, chicken, and lamb.

Fun and Games

By: Alexa

• Mesopotamians didn’t work all of the time.
• They sometimes played games.
• A variety of different games were played, such as boxing, wrestling, polo, and backgammon.
• Winning earned pride and respect from the other citizens.
• The most played game was probably the game that was like backgammon that was played with a pair of dice.
• It was called the “Royal Game of Ur.”

Achivements of Mesopotamia

By: Sage

• Mesopotamia created so many things that we use today like…………
• The world’s first ever ziggurats.
• The most amazing thing they created was a way of writing, if they hadn’t created writing I probably wouldn’t be able to write what I’m writing right now!

Religion

By: Sage

• Each city-state had some sort of a religion they would give and make things for them such as……….
• Pottery.
• They gave them food and water.
• Also the priest talked to the gods . The gods supposedly told them if there was a persom needed to be sacrificed or to have an exorcism.
• If a priest suspected there was a demon in a person, the priest would perform an exorcism on that person.

               Inventions

   By: Hailey

• The Mesopotamians made great inventions.
•  Some of there great inventions are the Seeder Plow, the Chariot, the Sail, the Wheel, Irrigation, and Cuneiform.
• The seeder plow was used for farming.
• The chariot was for battle.
• The sail was for long distance trade.
• The wheel was for short distance (trade across land.)
• Irrigation was when the summers were hot and dry, when the water didn’t get to the crops.
• Cuneiform was used to keep track of records.

Cuneiform

By: Sage

• Cuneiform was very important in
  Early Mesopotamia.
• The city-state ,Sumer, was the city-state that used cuneiform the most.
• Scribes had jobs as writing everything down such as…..
• How many crops grown in a day
• Or keeping track of how many sheep breeded in a year.
• Scribes studied cuneiform from ages 8 to 21

Ruling

By: Sage

• Many of the city-states had a ruler such as in Babylon. Hammurabi was an early ruler of Babylon. He created an important law-code such as……
• If someone was commiting a crime and was caught he/she would be put to death.
• A lot of the city-states performed exorcism’s on anyone who ‘had a demon’ inside of them.