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HISTORY OF MESOPOTAMIA

 

Mesopotamia is now located in modern-day Iraq between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The time period in Mesopotamia was from 3500 B.C TO 600 A.D.

 

 

Clothes

Their clothes were made from leather, wool, and flax. Sumerian women wore long dresses and left their right shoulder bare. The Sumerian man wore waist string or small lion clolthes that provide coverage.                 

                                                                                                                                 

Inventions

The first wheel was one of the biggest achievements in Mesopotamia history and was connected to vehicles called chariots.  Cuneiform was Mesopotamia's way of writing they wrote in clay tablets

 

Daily life

One thing priests did in Mesopotamia was being responsible for making sure everyone behave the way the gods wanted them too. King and officials governments were responsible for creating laws for city-state and they were part of the upper class.

 

Questions

  • Who were the main god in Mesopotamia?

  • What were some of their inventions?

  • What type of clothes did they wear?

 

- Tamia and Cordasha

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