SOCIAL

GENDER ROLES

• Roles of Women: wives, mothers, housekeepers, making clothes, tending to their "mate", keeping the fire going while the men were out doing their manly business
• Roles of Men: Kings, rule-makers, farmers, fathers, warriors, builders

FAMILY & KINSHIP

• Family unities became more arranged
• In Mesopotamia families were very important. The family was the basic unit of society

RACIAL & ETHNIC CONSTRUCTIONS

• The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians & Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC.

SOCIAL HIERARCHY

• The order of hierarchy went: King, Priests, Scribes, Merchants & Artisans, Commoners, Slaves
• There were 3 main classes: nobility, free citizens, and slaves.