Mesopotamia Poem!• Mesopotamia• There once was a CIVILIZATION• That grew ENOUGH FOOD to feed their great nation• The SOCIAL STRUCTURE had snobs• And a variety of jobs• They used WRITING for communication• RELIGION played a big part• With beliefs and worship to start• The CULTURE was grand• Literature, architecture, and band• Not to mention the very good art• The people developed TECHNOLOGY• (Tools and inventions like radiology)• Their GOVERNMENT made rules• Like “all kids must attend schools”• All of this is anthropology!

civilization

• Complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.

irrigation

• The construction of dams, ditches, walls, and water ways to bring water to the fields for farming.

cuneiform

• Writing used to keep track of business deals and events. It consisted of hundreds of wedge shaped marks cut into clay tablets with a sharp ended reed, some were made of ivory.

scribe

• Only a few people, mainly boys, learned how to write. They held honored positions and often became judges and political leaders.

City-state

• A city and its surrounding villages that has its own governmental unit.

• Los Angeles could be a city-state– Santa Monica, Woodland Hills, Pasadena, etc.

artisans

• Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or pottery.

empire

• Group of many different lands under one ruler.

provinces

• Kings divided the empire into provinces (political districts). This is similar to how the united states is divided.

Metaphor Poem• I am a sword,

Sharper than a tongueNobody can defeat me,Because I am a sword,I can not be hurt by what people sayAbout me, I will not show my angerAgainstSomeone else.

• You are going to write a metaphor poem like you are a zigurrat. Include an illustration.

• Do one for a zigurrat or a flooded farm from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Your poem should be 9-10 lines