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Pari- Good morning Gt students, you are watching Gt news channel. This is where you will find out about mrs.hentz's class. Today is all about mesopotamia, the first civilization to exsit. Hear more about it with calista


 * mesopotamia ||
 * mesopotamia ||

Calista - thanks pari! Mesopotamia was the first civilization to exsit.It was called the fertile crescent, because of it's shape. The land bettween two rivers, the etigris and euphrates rivers. And the cradel of civilaziton, where civiliztion was born! Now over to ishaan to learn about the fist topic.

I shaan -Thank you Calista, now for the fist topic. I will be telling you about The urban focus of mesopotamia. mesopotamian city-states. Each had a ziggurat, plce for worship in the middle of each city. a ziggurat resembled a mountain, and was know as"Mountain of God" or "Hill of Heaven". each city had classes, the upper, middle, and lower classes. the upper class surrounded the zigguart, the middle class was in the middle, and the lower class was along the city wall. . The Gates of each city where usally made of bronze they were decorated for attraction. Now pari wil tell you about the next topic.
 * ziggurat ||
 * ziggurat ||

pari - thank you ishaan. The mesopotamians had a stable food supply, they had farming, and grew their own crops. to water the crops they used a complex irragation system. The chief crop was barley. The other crops that were grown are wheat, sesame, flax, fruit trees, date palms, and many vegetables. the meopotamians also sold their surplus food for gold. well this surely proves that the mesopotamians were able to survive in terms of food. Calista will tell you about the religious structures of the Sumerians.
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Calista - Of course i will Pari, i'm going to share with you the distinct religious structure of mesopotamia, the ziggurat. well like ishaan had said a ziggurat is called "Hill of Heaven" or "Mountain of God." The Sumerians believed that the chief god lived on the top platform of the ziggurat. There were over three thousand Sumerian gods. all forces of nature that could not be controlled were considered gods. Only priests were allowed inside the ziggurat because it was a place of worship. People often came to the ziggurat to sacrifice something as well. There were statues of worshipping people, for when they people were not there. that is really clevler. wow for so long ago these people where very smart. Now here's a short word from our sponsor.

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I shaann -The mesopotamians sure were clever people which leads me to our next topic, New political and military structures. In mesopotamia there was always constant fighting over land. Which reminds me of Hammurabi, a powerfull leader. He was the first king to ever rule an empire. An empire is a group of cities in conroll by one leader. hammurabi had his own code of laws. most were harsh and curel, they civered the daily life of a person. The time when hammurabi rulled was know as the golden Age This didn't efect the gorwth of poultation. well the poulation grew because the people of meso. worked together and were organized.

Pari- The upper class of sumer consisted of priests, kings, and merchants. The middle class was basically government officials, shopkeepers, and artisans. The lower class is comprised of farmers, unskilled workers, and fisherman. Priests ran the schools and distributed land in the name of the God. This is proof of the new social sturture based on ecominic power of the mesopotamia. i wonder how the mesopotamians keep track of all this stuff! could help me out calista??

Calista - Well pari it all was keep track of because of the developement of writing. The writing is called cunieform, it's made up os hundreds of wedge shaped markings. Cuenieform is latin for the word wedge. writing was developed to keep track of trade and business deals.If you look at the writing it's very cpmplicated, so boys learned this in school. A graudaed student who is skilled at writing cuieform works for a merchant, the palace, government, or the priest. Could you posibly imagine learning that, it would be very difficult. now ishanna can please share with us the last aspect of the civilization.
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 * cuneiform ||
 * cuneiform ||
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Ishaan - During the period of time when Sumer thrived there were multiple artistic and intellectual advances. For example they invented many new things like the plow, wheel, and sailboat. The wheel allowed for easier transportation such as carts. The plow worked great for growing and planting food more easily. The sailboat replaced muscle power with wind power. The Sumerians also came up with the first number system. Their number system was based on sixty. We still use the Sumerian number system for some things today like sixty minutes per hour, sixty seconds per minute, and a 360 ° circle.Now to pari to finish up, we have surely learned alot. the mesopotamians alos played the lyre, that they had created. now that's talent because of them we have a model for present day inventions!
 * wheel for transportation ||
 * plow invention ||
 * sailboat invention ||
 * lyre ||
 * sailboat invention ||
 * lyre ||
 * lyre ||
 * lyre ||

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pari-we hope you have enjoyed learning about mesopotamia.You know what this means Gt students, you should pass Mrs.Hentz's test. For calista, and ishaan, i'm pari! study hard, and make this day a good one Gt students. Good bye