PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HOW WAS THE GOVERMENT IN MESOPOTAMIA?
Mesopotamian government was a combination of monarchy and democracy. Kings ruled the people yet elected officials who served the assembly ruled the people to. Kings had to ask the Assembly for permission to do some things.
Class System
there were four classes of people in ancient Mesopotamia. The persist, upper class, lower class, and then the slaves.
The Priests
The priests were the most powerful. They had to make sure that everyone behaved in a way witch made the god's happy. They were doctors if you were sick you called for a doctor.
The Upper Class
Men and Woman wore dewerly. lots wore rings. Men wore shirts and had long hair like woman. They also had curly mustaches and long beards. Woman word dresses off one sholder. they wore long hair in braids or fancy arrangements.
Mesopotamian polytheism was the only religion in ancient Mesopotamia for thousands of years before entering a period of gradual decline beginning between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE.
As with most dead religions, many aspects of the common practices and intricacies of the doctrine have been lost and forgotten over time. Fortunately, much of the information and knowledge has survived, and great work has been done by historians and scientists, with the help of religious scholars and translators, to re-construct a working knowledge of the religious history, customs, and the role these beliefs played in everyday life in Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia during this time.
