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**__Mesopotamian Work__**
Tyler Kauffmen = Green

Cheyenne Fowler = Purple

__ Rachel Miller = Blue __ Theme: Interview Cast: Cheyenne -interviewer Rachel -interviewer __ Tyler -Hammurabi __

(music) Interviewer: Hello I am Dr. Fowler and this is 30 minutes and I am with Dr. Miller to find out information about a famous city-state.

Interviewer: Hello I am Dr. Miller and our guest star today is Hammurabi. We will be asking him about his city-state.

Interviewer: Our first question is...

Interviewer: What city-state did you rule?

Hammurabi: I was the ruler of the empire of Babylon.

Interviewer: What were the social classes of Ancient Mesopotamia?

Hammurabi: There is the upper class, which has the king, priests, and merchants. The middle class has government officials, artisans, and store keepers. Lower class has the farmers.

Interviewer: How did people choose their kings and rulers?

Hammurabi:They were chosen by the gods that lived in the Ziggurat.

Interviewer: What were some inventions did Sumerians make?

Hammurabi: ﻿They made the wheel, plow, the sail boat, 360 degrees, and the clock.

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Interviewer: What were some good things did you bring to your people?

Hammurabi: I brought peace from the code of laws which were laws from different city-states that were put together to use for the whole empire.

Interviewer: Why were the ziggurats created in your city-states?

Hammurabi: They were built so the people could praise the gods of the city-states and special meetings are held there.

Interviewer: What did some farmers produce?

Hammurabi: They farmed a lot of barley and wheat.

Interviewer: What was the urban focus of your city-states?

Hammurabi: The urban focus of the city-states is the ziggurat and the gods.

Interviewer: What did you do for a food supply?

Hammurabi: We used the tigre and uphrateas river to agricult our land to plant crops and fish.

Interviewer: How many gods are there?

Hammurabi: In Mesopatamia there was about three thousand gods that were worshiped by people.

Interviewer: Well I guess that our time is up so thank you for coming.

Hammurabi: Well, thank you for having me.

Interviewer: This was 30 minutes and have a great day. See you next time. (cue clapping)

Chat room: ~I think we should put the pictures with the questions and answers soon+ tyler put more pics on plz. i thought we had more! Rachel I think we should get rid of the questions that tyler did not answer. Ok. You told me to add more questions today, so I'll do that, too. Also, if you want me to change anything, write it and I'll check back later. Don't worry, if it's ok I won't make any changes! Well Rachel I was saying that u should ask question that had to do with the paper we filled out. so maybe you could write questions like that.also i added some pics. I got some more pictures and finished the question i think we should have an intro song to start the podcast then clapping in some parts then something at the end





Hi All, this is Mr. Krause - Great pictures and interview questions. Is this going to be a news-style report? Looking forward to seeing the finished podcast! yes it's a news-style report Yes it is and i think it will be good