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Mesopotamia Work

This is going to be a News channel that is in the time of Ancient Mesopotamia

Joseph Jang Mary Green
 * Robert Dubow **
 * "Hello this is channel six news. This is Joseph Jang along with Mary Green. Our top story is from a researcher about ancient mesopotamia." **
 * "So can you tell us about the economics and social structure in mesopotamia?" **


 * "Yes I can. The social structur[[image:Picture_2.png]]e in mesopotamia had an upper class, middle class, and lower class. Upper class consisted of kings, priest, and merchants the reason behind that is that they had all the power. With the fertile soil and many farmers there was more room for other professions. So the people of mesopotamia relied on merchants for their goods because many people did not continue a farming profession. Middle class consisted of artisans, shopkeepers, and government officials. Artisans were respected because they made jewelry for the upper class. They also made tools for carpenters and farmers. Shopkeepers were given the products of the leftovers of the merchants. Government Officials set up the laws and contained chaos. Lower class consisted of farmers, unskilled workers, slaves,and fishermen ﻿ . Farmers were considered lower class because they were illiterate and had a very dirty job. Farmers would not have been considered lower class if there weren't time for other professions. ﻿ Unskilled workers did the easiest and lowest job. They made adobe bricks and dried them in the sun. Slaves were sold and bought and did whatever their master had told them to do. Fishermen caught fish in the rivers to sell to merchants and shopkeepers. This wasn't a high paying job, so it was considered lower class because of the bad pay and the dirty work. " **

" ﻿Thank you very much. Can you tell us about artistic and technological advances?"

"Yes. Since there was more job opportunities people started crafting with wood and metals. They were called artisans they would make statues and jewelry for the kings and priests. Scribes were mostly boys who were sons of rich men who worked for kings and they wrote inside religious temples called ziggurats. Mesopotamians also created the wheel and irrigation canals. Mesopotamians used irrigation to get water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They used canals to run them into their cities so they wouldn't have to travel to get water."

"Did the mesopotamians have any type of military force?"
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 * "Yes the mesopotamians did have a military but not at first. **


 * At first the mesopotamians worked **


 * together so they could survive. As farming became less **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">necessary the individual city-states **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">started to prosper. Mesopotamians started making military **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">forces because some city-states **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">prospered more then others and the rulers started getting **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">jealous so they would fight to take **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">control of the more prosperous cities" **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">"Thank you. You seem to know a lot of information about **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">mesopotamia did they have any laws?" **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">"Mesopotamians did have laws. The creator of their 282 laws **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">was a man named Hammurabi. He was **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">thought to be a very fair ruler. Because he was so fair the **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">people liked his laws some of which **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">are still present today. After Hammurabi died a new man **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">named Sargon I came along and made the **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">very first empire. Sargon I was a very bad ruler. He was **


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">very mean and not fair." **

"I also have some other questions for you, may I ask them?"

"So, tell me, Mesopotamians were considered as the first civilized people. Does that mean that they had a stable food supply?" "Yes. The Mesopotamians started irragation to flow water to their crops. So instead of going TO the water source, they made the water come to them." " Did Mesopotamians have farming tools? if so, what were they?" "The Mesopotamians Invented the plow to make farming easier. Also, they used stonr-bladed sickles for harvesting grain." "Did they start out with plows when they had started farming, or did they use something else untill they invented plows?" "The Mesopotamians used sticks instead of plows until they invented plows, which worked a lot better." "So I see that Mesopotamians created many things. Did they have other tools for work?" "Yes. The Mesopotamians invented the wheel, to push carts, which was also another one of their inventions. They were the first people to domesticate animals to push carts, and to make farming and life easier." "Oh I see thank you for the information." "So now. Did the Mesopotamians have and Urban Focus?" "Yes they had a big temple called the ziggurat." "It was made of terraces and the Sumerians believed that the gods descended to Earth using the ziggurats as a stairway to Earth. "So did each City-State in Mesopotamia woship the same god?"  "No. In fact, each City-State worshiped their own god, and they worshiped the god in a different way for each one." "Wow. thats a little extreme." "That's only the beginning. The priests also washed the statues of the god in the ziggurat before and after every meal." "They really cared about religion."  "But that's not the only thing the ziggurat was for."  "Yes. Please tell us the other uses." "The ziggurat drew people to it as the center. People came around the ziggurat as a meeting place. There was also another Urban Focus of every City-State." "What was that?"  "It was the Entrance Gate. The Entrance Gate was always as spectacular as can be, because it showed poeple coming from the outside that this City-State was different from that one." "So then there were two Urban Focuses in every City-State?"  "Yes. The Gate was also a meeting place, or a hang out area. But, the ziggurat was still the most important building in the City-State." "Can You tell us more about the Religion?"  "Yes. In total of the Sumerian religion, there were 5,000 gods." "But there weren't 5,000 City-States. So how did each one get worshiped when there was only one for each City-State?" "Yes. Some of the gods did not get worshiped and were left out. But unlike some cultures, there are actually both male and female gods." "So how was the religion started.?"  "Well the Mesopotamians thought that gods had made humans so that they could serve them."  "Is that why there were ziggurats and such extreme worshiping?"  "That, and the fact that they thought that the gods would punish them if they didn't serve them."  "Ah, I see. Well that's it for me, here's Mary." "Thank you Joseph. So, can you tell me. Why did the Mesopotamians develop writing?" "The Mesopotamans developted writing because of trade. Things were out of order because the population was growing, and things needed to be kept track of." "So they needed writing so that they could return things?"  "Sort of. The Mesopotamians named the writing cuneiform. It first started out as picture writing, but that took too long." "So how did they adapt their writing?"  "The Mesopotamians changed their writing from picture writing to wedge shaped figures and lines. It was much faster, and writing became treasured." "So where would one learn cuneiform? Did they have schools?" "Actually the Mesopotamians were so advanced, they made schools. the "schools" were in a temple that were in the center of their city-state and were used for religion and as a gathering place." "How did it work? Did everyone go to school?" "No actually Only the sons of rich men went. Girls couldn't go to school and weren't allowed to learn at school." "Oh, so without girls not going to school what did they do?"  "They learned cooking cleaning, and women could buy and sell property."  "How popular was cuneiform?"  "As the population grew, cuneiform went throughtout all Sumerian City-States."  "Back to the trade. Who wrote the recipes and things that needed to be written down?" "There were actually people highly skilled in Cuneiform called Scribes."  "Scribes went around the shops and merchants looking for jobs, and also taught at schools. They were respected people because they were so good at cuneiform." "you said a scribe could work for a merchant and a merchant is in upper class how would he sign an important document?"  "anybody who needed to sign impotant documents and was illiterate used "cynder seals" which are kind of like using stamps today but they are shaped like a pin roller and have a design that represents them that they roll through the clay tablet which then imprints their design"  "Well Thank you for all of this."  "Your welcome"  "This is the end of our show. This was the channel six news. See you!" ﻿ ,
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">"No not at all I would be happy to help." <span style="color: #00ff20; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿ **

<span style="color: #00ff20; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; overflow: hidden;">﻿﻿I thin k thisa could be used for the begining of the podcast opening our show put this pic on word at the bottom You don't think i need to put facebook as one of the links right? =CHAT HERE=

what is our third sound affect???? i know we have the news sound then the gilgamesh music but what is the third?