Meso+KAAT

GROUP NAMES- TAYLOR DESTRALO, KYLE BROCKETT, ARIEL WEISMAN, & AMANDA REDHOUSE (sorry if i spelled your name wrong) Kyle Brockett-Government and Religion

+ The government -Makes life orderly -Helps strengthen social order - Sumerian kings enforce laws/collect taxes -Sumerian Armies are made up of Professional soilders and part time local soilders

+Religious Structures -Each civilization has its own religious structure -Sumerians expressed religious beliefs with ziggurats -Towers were made for religious beliefs -Religion bound them together in a common way of life 
 * Honored gods with art and music
 * Some gods are An, Enlil, Enki, and Ki
 * Believed that humans were created to serve the gods
 * Cities had a paton god who the ziggurat was dedicated to

 __Social Standings 1-8 ____by Taylor Destralo__ *upperclass lived in the center of their *city-state(priests, government officials and land owners) *their houses were considered very luxurious with white washed mud brick walls

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*middleclass lived not in the center but not on the edge of the city-state they included crafts men and merchants. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*Craftsmen would make high class things like mirrors <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">and jewelry

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*lower class lived on the outskirts of town and included farmers and fisherman their houses were made out of mud bricks <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">were forced to join army in time of war <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*status means importance <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*craft workers worked with gold and metals <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*craftworkers made plows and hoes for farmers <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">*craftworkers made arrow heads and weapons for military people

__Taylor Destralo 4/8 facts urban focus__
 * ziggurats were a place for religious gatherings
 * ziggurats also were used for socializing
 * Babylon (mesopotamian city) was a center for trade
 * Ur a city/state of Sumer was a major center for commerce (interchange of ideas) and trade

<span style="COLOR: rgb(239,196,26); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(56,149,229)">Amanda Redhouse-Urban Focus Ariel Weisman- Development of Writing <span style="COLOR: #ffa20f; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c1ff">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(239,196,26); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(56,149,229)"> Charles Leonard Woolley discovered the Royal tombs of Ur. in the late 1920's
 * the great death pit
 * 6 gaurds and 68 court ladies
 * they all drank a deadly posion and went to sleep and died with their king to serve him in the after life.
 * they also found alot af artifacts like lyers and great stacues.
 * Originally used for trade
 * Called after the Latin words for wedge and shape
 * Used from 3,000 B.C.E. to 100 B.C.E.
 * Came from earlier pictograms or pictures of things that stand for that objest or idea
 * Most symbols stood for more than one sound or word
 * Over 600 symbols
 * Many words had many meanings, so there were many symbols for some words, all with a different meaning.
 * Some symbols were created by combining two symbols (Bread symbol+Head symbol=mouth symbol)
 * <span style="COLOR: #ffa20f; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #00c1ff">Gilgamesh-first piece of literature

<span style="COLOR: rgb(10,154,255); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(245,224,66)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,165,240); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(250,215,51)">__Amanda Redhouse- artistic and ? arts__
 * Inventions

<span style="COLOR: rgb(10,154,255); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(245,224,66)">*Complex irrigation systems
<span style="COLOR: rgb(10,154,255); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(245,224,66)">*networks of canals and dams Music * <span style="COLOR: #ff911a; FONT-FAMILY: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff33b4"> Wrote Gilgamesh- the first piece of literature *Wrote poems about things they loved-like their city and the gods WOW AMANDA YOU ADDED SO MUCH SERIOUSLY!! <span style="COLOR: rgb(148,48,156); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(28,19,195)">Here are some links to pictures we might need: http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/images/mesopotamia.jpg http://punchup.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/mesopotamia03.jpg http://www.hmc.org.qa/hmc/heartviews/H-V-v2%20N4/SUMERIAN%201.jpg http://muarchives.missouri.edu/images/exh_libraries/LE-SpecCuneiformClayTabletLarge72res.jpg <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,9,255); BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(219,0,207)">http://www.rainydaygames.ca/images/FreeBoard-256862.jpg http://www.mitchellteachers.org/WorldHistory/MrMEarlyHumansProject/Images/mesopotamia.jpg- http://www.oakton.edu/user/~hgraff/images/ziggurat1.gif http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n5784.jpg
 * provide steady supply of water to crops
 * Plow
 * tills (turns) soil to prepair for planting
 * faster
 * made of wood and pulled by oxen
 * wheel
 * most important
 * first used by pottersfor shaping clay pots
 * potters turned it over and relisied it could go forward
 * made carts for famers and chariots for the armies
 * had to use sledges befor
 * sledges- flat-bottomed carts people had to pull, which often got cought
 * Arch
 * u or v shaped structures above door ways
 * added class and strengh to the buildings
 * common on upper-class houses
 * Art
 * Arts- include paintings,music, and architecture
 * meatel-workers- made common objects like weapons but also made decrotive items like jewelry
 * people belived music brought joy to the gods
 * people played instruments and sang during cerimonies to entertain guests
 * insruments include drums,pipes and a small harp called a lyre
 * Lyre- wooden instrument that had a sound box and strings that were very decorated, usually with stones and carvings which show the Sumerians love and value of the musioc they made for the gods and themselves.