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UNIT 2 MESOPOTAMIANS

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statues of commoners in ziggurats
eyes wide open; always on god
praying
in ziggurat b/c commoners cant be physically in ziggurats
Warka Vase
priests and servant taking offerings to god at top of vase
gods in mesopotamia
anthropomorphic
process of giving human characteristics to gods; symbolize natural disasters
Religion in Mesopotamia
polytheistic
gods punish w/ natural disaster
lion hunts
kings hunted lions in arena
so wont get hurt
so wont embarrass self
outside arena, servants hunted them and offered to king
the point to offer the king lions
Standard of Ur
hierarchy of scale
read bottom to top, left to right
war
role of the river
river fast and dangerous
judges innocence
gives and takes life
religious symbol
importance of property
something stolen off property, death
made need for more severe laws
inequality; upper class has more land = inequality
THE HIERARCHY OF SCALE
when something in art is bigger it means its more important
stele
statue-like thing hammurabi's code found on
top is Shamash giving hammurabi the codes
Hammurabi's Code
set of written laws
found on stele
written in cuneiform (pictographs)
very earliest Mesopotamians

CHRONOLOGICAL
sumerians
akkadians
babylonians
assyrians
city-states
state that consists of a city and its surrounding territory
types of inequality
GENDER
- work > efficiently done by men
-laborers respected and women were not laborers
-seen as not equal to laborers

CLASS
ruling elite
preists
nobles
commoners
slaves
where did civilization come from?
started in Mesopotamia, "Cradle of Civilization" by Chiefdoms
products of civilization
art, religion, laws, crime, inequality (hierarchy of class)
civilization
society in an advanced state of social development
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