Mesopotamia's place
Daily lifeIn Mesopotamia, daily life very work oriented. Men woke up every morning to tend to their fields if they were a farmer, if they were selling items in markets, they would have to wake up very early. "Middle class" and "lower class" men and women (the ones who worked as scribes or preists, or farmers and clerks would usually go to their Ziggurat first for daily religious rituals.
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LanguageThe Mesopotamian spoke two languages that were spoken depending on the city state you lived in. Akkadian was spoken during the period when Akkadia and Assyria were the most powerful City States. Sumerian was spoken first, before everything else. Akkadian eventually overlapped Sumerian, and it was not always used afterwards. It was saved for religious, literary, and scientific research, though.
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ReligionThe Mesopotamian's believed in many gods, each of which represented a certain aspect of life. They believed that the world was a huge, flat disc, and that there was water everywhere, which the universe was born from. One of the Gods, Shamash, the Sun God, is etched in the top of the stone that has every law of Hammurabi's code. There are many other Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses, which you can read about
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LandscapeThe landscape of Mesopotamia was very fertile soil, hence the name Fertile Crescent. Many plants could be grown, and livestock could be bred. Wildlife was common, so there was not any food shortages in Mesopotamia's run as a civilization. With nobody going hungry, they could focus on other things, such as art.
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Art in Mesopotamia
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Art in Mesopotamia was very unique for it's time, and symbolic. You could create a statue to represent someones life, or to show a purpose for other things, such as Gods or Goddesses. The most popular art form was most likely statues, that brought people or Gods out from their depictions and into real life. The second most popular art form was writing Epics, long poetry that tells a story. For example, the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature, tells of a story about the Gilgamesh, a man who is "two-thirds god, and one-third man", which means he is a Demigod. The story is somewhat unclear, due to the fact that some of the tablets are broken, and the fact that some writing may be worn down due to the fact that it is thousands of years old. This represented the dawn of art as we know it today, and we can consistently use it as a reminder of how far we have come in human history.