Describe the development of Mesopotamian societies include the religious cultural economic and political facets of society with attention to Hammurabis law code The Standards AKA The GPSs Georgia Performance Standards is what the state of Georgia says we have to teach you In WH ID: 644657
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SSWH1 analyze the origins, structures, and interactions of complex societies in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean from 3500 BCE to 500 BCE.
Describe the development of Mesopotamian societies; include the religious, cultural, economic, and political facets of society, with attention to Hammurabi’s law code.
The Standards – AKA: The GPS’s (Georgia Performance Standards is what the state of Georgia says we have to teach you. In WH, we do not cover every standard – but do cover every standard that will be on your SGMs (Student Growth Measure); they were called the SLOsSlide3
Understanding birth of Civilization in 12 minutesSlide4
Geography
The word
Meso
(middle)
potam
(river)
ia
is from Ancient Greek which means between the rivers
Located in what we call SOUTHWEST ASIA; the modern Day countries of: Iraq, Iran, Syria and a little of Turkey.
Major part of the Fertile CrescentSlide5
What is the Fertile Crescent?
It
is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape,
from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and
northern
Egypt.Slide6
Geography
Modern Political DivisionsSlide7
RELIGION
POLYTHEISM: POLY(many)
THEISM(god)
Believed their world was controlled by in 100s of gods and goddesses, demons and monsters who could be good or evil. Slide8
Anu
: god of heavenBa’al: god of stormsInanna: goddess of love and war
Nergal
: god of death and pestilence
Dagon
: god of wind and air
Ereshkigal
: goddess of the dead
Ningal
: god of metal
Marduk
: god of judgement and magicSlide9
Ziggurats
Each city had its own god for protection and had large & small temples, priests and rituals, like offerings. Usually effigies and/or food.
This is an image of what a Ziggurat would look like. Notice the plants and trees on the steppes. The temple is on the top
. Slide10
Effigies
An effigy is like a doll sculpture that you would take to the temple as an offering to the gods. Slide11
Elements of Civilization
Cities – like Ur & UrakReligion (polytheistic)Government – Monarchy (kings & queens)Specialized jobs – like scribes – gave way to
Social Classes
Architecture (ziggurats)
ANDSlide12
Writing
Cuneiform
Cuneiform
is made of wedge shaped marks that represent sounds that can be combined to form words. The earliest Cuneiform texts were made around 3000 BC. It was used mainly on clay
but they also used it on stone, metals, wax, and other materials.
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Hammurabi
King Hammurabi of Babylon comes to control the area around 1792 BC. His kingdom is called Babylon.
He was known as the
great lawgiver
He creates the first law code which included many new legal ideas and were adopted my many other cultures.
Every city in his kingdom had the laws posted and everyone who lived or visited his kingdom was subject to his laws. Slide14
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
This “stele”
is
the best source
of his
laws.
The Laws clearly distinguish between three classes of persons: free men, serfs and slaves.
Fees and punishments often differ between classes.
T
he
main
importance
of these Laws is that most crimes or errors could be compensated for with money. But in Hammurabi's Laws, it was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a toothSlide15
Samples
of Hammurabi’s Laws
If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death.
If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
If any one be guilty of incest with his mother after his father, both shall be burned. Slide16
What does he look like?