What It Means
Mesopotamia is an ancient city in between two rivers. These two rivers are called the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers. Mesopotamia is named Mesopotamia since Mesopotamia means "the land between the two rivers".
Mesopotamian Life Style
In this Sutori you will learn about Mesopotamian's and their lifestyles.
by Ian, Chris, Shea, Jesse, Keagan, and Andrew
Mesopotamia
Population of the Mesopotamian and there social life
The population of the Mesopotamian cites varied greatly by c.2300 BCE while Uruk had the population of 50,000 and Mari to the north had the population of 10,000 and Akkad had the population of 36,000
What They Made
In Mesopotamia they made the wheel, a plow and started to write on wet clay in their own writing to make it easier to remember more.
The Jobs
There were limited jobs where you could go in the temple. For example priests were one of the people that were allowed in the temple. There were other jobs in Mesopotamia to such as farmers, weavers, and herdsmen. But one job that everybody wanted was a tradesman. This is because trade was so popular so traders made a fortune very fast.
The Land Between the Two Rivers
The People
in Mesopotamia their were many people their were the wealthy people, the slaves, the priests, the kings, shopkeepers, and the fishermen.
Quiz
What is Mesopotamia?
- A city between two rivers
- A animal
- A river
- a person
Quiz
what are these things
Farming and Agriculture
How it was started
When people first moved to Mesopotamia, they found life pretty easy since there was wildlife to catch and wild plants that they could eat. These are the reasons that they stayed there. Eventually they started growing crops and became very wealthy. When other tribes saw this, they started raiding Mesopotamia so Mesopotamian's put up a wall to keep raiders out. Mesopotamian's eventually started raising cattle, sheep and other animals. This is how Mesopotamia grew from a small village, to a thriving community.
When they first discovered it, Mesopotamian farmers grew little crops but as they got more advanced in farming, they grew more and more crops. For example, some really important crops they grew were wheat and barley. Some other crops were grapes, figs, melons, dates, apples, onions, beans, and radishes.
Water in The Summer
They dug miles of of ingratiation canals to bring the rivers to their Fields so their crops in the warm summer wouldn't die out.
The Plow and Seed Funnel
Earlier farmers had used a plow pulled by an oxen to cut a long trench in the soil then the farmers drop seeds into the trench and soon they made a seed funnel attached to the plow instead of dropping one seed at a time.
Mesopotamian's at work.
Quiz
What were the two important crops that the Mesopotamian's grew?
- Barely
- Apples
- Melons
- Fruit
- Wheat
- Cocoa
- Onions
Beliefs
Did you know?
that all the city states believe in one god and believe it lives in the top of the temple.
The Gods
In ancient Mesopotamia, each of the city states believe in one god of the sun, moon, earth, salt water, fresh water and air