Download - First Civilizations: Mesopotamia
CITY-STATES (UR, URUK, LAGASH) WERE DEPENDENT ON RIVERS TO
FARM. SOME PEOPLE WERE CRAFTSMEN. TRADE LED
TO THE INVENTION OF MONEY
THE FIRST FOUR EMPIRES WERE THE AKKADIAN EMPIRE, THE
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE, THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE, AND THE
PERSIAN EMPIRE IN MESOPOTAMIA BETWEEN 3RD AND 1ST MILLENNIUM
THE ZIGGURAT AND THE PALACE WERE THE MAIN BUILDINGS IN
THE CITY STATES. THEY WERE MADE OF ADOBE AND COVERED
IN BITUMEN.
GLAZED CERAMICS DECORATED THEZIGGURAT. WORSHIPPING MEN AND
WOMEN WORSHIPPING WERE SCULPTURES, OR REPRESENTATIONS
OF KING GUDEA WERE SCULPTURES.
THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTIONS OF THESE URBAN CIVILIZATIONS
WERE THE ARCH AND THE VAULT, THEY MADE MORE BUILDING
POSSIBILITIES.
SOME OF THE LAWS ARE:
IF A MAN PUTS OUT THE EYE OF ANOTHER MAN, HIS EYE WILL BE
PUT OUT. AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
SOME OF THE LAWS ARE:
IF A MAN KNOCKS OUT ANOTHER MANS TEETH, HIS TEETH WILL BE KNOCKED OUT. A TOOTH FOR A
TOOTH.
HAMMURABI’S CODE DID NOT TREAT SLAVES AS EQUALS. IF A
WRONG WAS DONE TO A SLAVE, THE MAN WHO COMMITTED THE
CRIME HAD TO PAY THEIR MASTER HAVE OF THEIR COST.
HAMMURABI’S CODE HAS 282 LAWS. IT IS KEPT IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM (LARGEST MUSEUM IN
THE WORLD) IN PARIS, FRANCE.