Mesopotamia
Political
The empires of Mesopotamia where Sumer, Babylonia, Akaddia, and Assyria.
It was under control of the Parthian empire when it became a battle ground between the Romans and the Parthians. Part of Mesopotamia came under control of the Romans. In 226 AD it fell under Persian control.The "Code of Hammurabi" was one of the earliest type of laws and some of those laws are still used today |
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Environmental
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Intillectual
They invented the wheel, they planted cereal crops, they used cursive script, mathematics, and astronomy
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Social
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Men and Woman worked. Most grew crops and raised livestock. Other occupations included Scribe, healer, artisan, weaver, potter, shoemaker, fisherman, teacher, and priest or priestess. Women enjoyed the nearly equal rights and could own land, file for a divorce, run there own business, and make contracts in trade.
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Technology
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The oldest medicine in Babylonia dates back to the old Babylonia in the first half of the second millennium b.c. Mesopotamia invented allot of technology including brass and copper wiring, glass and lamp making, textile weaving, flood control, water storage, and irrigation. The Archimedes screw may have been used by Sennacherib the king of Assyria for the water systems at the hanging gardens of Babylonia. Later during the Periods of Parthian and Sassanian the Baghdad Battery which might have been the first battery was invented.
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