Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Mesopotamia
Sumer and the Sumerian people
-origins: 3500 to 3000 B.C.
-urban life or city-states: Uruk, Eridu, Umma, Lagash and Ur
--ramparts; irrigation
-Stratified society:
--Kings - priests - administrative and military elite - craftsmen - peasants - slaves
-textile industry and workshops for women
Religion:
-many gods
-Kings had symbolic marriage to Inanna
-Ur's protector god was Nanna
-huge temples and ziggurats
-Epic of Gilgamesh
Sumer and the Sumerian people
-origins: 3500 to 3000 B.C.
-urban life or city-states: Uruk, Eridu, Umma, Lagash and Ur
--ramparts; irrigation
-Stratified society:
--Kings - priests - administrative and military elite - craftsmen - peasants - slaves
-textile industry and workshops for women
Religion:-many gods
-Kings had symbolic marriage to Inanna
-Ur's protector god was Nanna
-huge temples and ziggurats
-Epic of Gilgamesh
Administration:
-Development of writing: cuneiform
Akkadian State: King Sargon (2334-2279 B.C.)
-Inter-dependent confederacies
Conquests by Old Babylonian Kingdom in 18th Century B.C.
-King Hammurabi
-Code of Hammurabi = Law
Hittites dominant force in Mesopotamia between 17th and 13th centuries B.C.
# posted by Anne Good @ 6:50 AM 
