Ancient Mesopotamia
• The land between the rivers – Origins of language, cities
• Tigris and Euphrates– Flood was irregular
The Role of Women
• Strictly defined– Daughter of her father, or wife of her husband
• Trained in traditional roles or wife, mother – Worked outside, based on work at home
• Arranged marriages – Part of her husband’s family
Literature
• Seals– Rounded showing a story
• Myths, literary workers, folktales,
• Epic of Gilgamesh – Recorded around 2000 B.C.E.
• Long narrative poem • Deeds of the hero
Mathematics and Measurement/ Science and Inventions
• 1st to give number a place value
• Concept of zero
• The wheel
• Seeder plow, seeding and plowing at the same time
• Irrigation
• Using a sail to use wind power
Art and Agriculture
• Brick/ mud
• Arch and column
• Wood was in short supply and stone was non-existant