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The appearance of
writing
Appeared in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago.
Living in cities means that people need to create a
SYSTEM OF CONTROL TO KEEP THE
INTERESTING DATA: TAXES, TRADE
TRANSACTIONS
Later other affairs begen to be registered in
writing: holy books, science books, literary works,
etc.
Invention of writing sets the birth of History.
¢. The First Civilizations
Emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India &
China 5,000 years ago
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¢.4 The first urban societies
Each person has a job
and provided Each group live ina
Division of work inside
themselves with other particular quarter of
cities
necessities at the the city
market
Palace: king·s
residence
Mesopotamia·s society
Society
Non privileged
Privileged (people
(people with or
with rights and
without rights and
owning the land)
without any lands)
Privileged groups: had all
the rights and possessed
most of the riches
Non privileged
groups No rights. Treated as
Slaves
objects
"You can have a lord, you can have a King, but the man to
fear is the tax collector!´ Sumerian proverb
The [ , a massive stepped pyramid about ¢10
by 150 feet in size, is the most well-preserved monument
from the remote age of the Sumerians. It consists of a series
of successively smaller platforms which rose to a height of
about 64 feet, and was constructed with a solid core of mud-
brick covered by a thick skin of burnt-brick to protect it from
the elements.
Sumerian writing: Cuneiform
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3.¢ Akkadian Empire
4. Religion in Mesopotamia
Polytheistic
Gods = human shaped and had the same
passions as human beings. Inmortal
Temples = gods· residence in Earth
(ziggurat)
Different rooms: rites like animals and
humans sacrifices
5. The first schools
Centre of
Scribe training Mesopotamian
culture
Scholars,
Rich families·
Scientists,
children. Only
Theologians,
men.
Linguists
5. The first schools
Cycles
Elementary Advanced
Other
read write
subjects
!
6. Mesopotamian Art
Arch
In ente
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Reliefs &
Decorate
frescos
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6. Mesopotamian Art
Sumerians and
Akkadians Statues
of kings and gods
Sculpture Stone
Assyrians figures
of bulls with
human heads
Final exercises
Where did the earliest civilization in history develop?