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http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/q/p/NewOrleansLevee82620893.jpg

Levees helped irrigating crops
 * Urban Focus: **


 * CAN TYPE WORDS**

http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/am/v3/n2/ziggurat.jpg **Religious:** Ziggurat

http://www.lawbuzz.com/ourlaws/hammurabi/images/headpiece2.jpg **Political and Military Structure:** Hammurabi

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/93/84493-004-22864D43.jpg **Development of Writing:** cuneiform

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/image_archive/ue/pottery03.jpg **Artistic and Intellectual Activity:** Pottery

http://www.pyramidofman.com/blog/images/01_menkaure_pyramid.jpg **Social Structure based on Economic Power:** Pyramids Upper Class, Middle Class and Lower Class

**~FUNMI** *Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong.


 * __Funmi__- **Getting images**
 * __Seth__- **Script and other Information**
 * __Bree__- **Script**

**Ideas for Podcast:** Having an interview with Hammurabi. Seth- Hammurabi and Bree interviewing him. **OR** An infomercial, kind of like a commercial but with information about Mesopotamia and Hammurabi.

script

Bree: can you give us an example?
==== Seth: ok well: If any one fail to meet a claim for debt, and sell himself, his wife, his son, and daughter for money or give them away to forced labor: they shall work for three years in the house of the man who bought them, or the proprietor, and in the fourth year they shall be set free. ====

Bree: That’s interesting. How did your economic and social structure work?
==== Seth: Well the structure was not really changed while I ruled Mesopotamia. At the top were Kings, Priests, and merchants. In the middle were Scribes, Government Officials, and Artisans. And at the bottom were Farmers, Fishermen, and other laborers. ====

Bree: What about religion? What kind of gods did you believe in?
==== Seth: We had a god for almost everything. There were actually over 3,000 gods we believed in. We had a way for the gods to get to earth. It was a temple called a ziggurat. This temple served as a school for scribes, outside merchants sold their items, and at the top-level only priests and kings were allowed in it. In my great city of Babylon on one of the gates there are images of the goddess of love and war: Ishtar. ====

Bree: I’m really learning a lot about Mesopotamia. Well how was your urban focus? What kind of inventions did you make?
==== Seth: well we invented a lot. The most useful was the wheel. We also invented a way for irrigating our crops while keeping out water; this invention is called the levee. We even invented a kind of wedged shaped writing called Cuneiform. This was first used as a way of keeping records of trades. ====

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