Mesopotamia Interesting Facts
- Mesopotamia means "the land between two rivers"
- It is between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
- Now, the area corresponds to Iraq, northeastern Syria and Kuwait
- Sumerian was the earliest language
- Three civilizations were settled at first: Ur, Uruk and Babylon.
- Babylon created the cuneiform system , which was a writing system .
Mesopotamian Civilization
schools:
As you can see, not only in the modern world children went to school. Children have always been taught in some kind of institution, and as they may think it is only torture and torture, it helps them inmensively in their lives
Classes of People :
Priests:
Slaves
- The priests ran the schools at this time
- Girls could not go to school, only boys
- The students were whipped if they said something that was not correct
- They were whipped because the Sumerians thought that you could only learn if you got consequences
As you can see, not only in the modern world children went to school. Children have always been taught in some kind of institution, and as they may think it is only torture and torture, it helps them inmensively in their lives
Classes of People :
Priests:
- Most important and powerful
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They ruled all the people in the civilization
- Both the women and the man wore expensive jewelry
- Men had long beards and long hair
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Women were long dresses
- Also were jewelry, but not as expensive as the one of the higher class people
Slaves
- They were bought by upper and lower class people to serve them
- Priests and kings owned slaves
- Slaves fought and served this people