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Contributions & legacy
Ancient Mesopotamia was the first empire to create a useful, written form of law! The laws were written and kept by people called scribes. This astonishing empire even used Cuneiform & pictographs. The first empire to create the "wheel", it was used for pottery for making pots. One of there most intelligent ideas was putting arches above the door of there houses in a "U" or a "V" shape. This was common in temples and in wealthy people homes. They had 2,000 symbols that meant items or thoughts, but over time they shortened it to about 700. There language was highly developed language for there time. They wrote there language with there invention a wedge shaped item called a stylus. They used a stylus to edge the writing into, clay tablets. The Sumerians developed cuneiform around 2400 B.C.E. The earliest found examples of cuneiform was used by good Sumerians sent back and forth to one another.It is based on a earlier, simpler form of writing that used pictographs, witch are symbols that stand for rel objects. the marks were put into clay for permanent record, once they dried.
There were many types of craftspeople in Ancient Mesopotamia such as. musicians, metalworkers, painters, and architects. Sumerians believed that music brought joy to the gods and people alike. Musicians played instruments and sang in temples during ceremonies. They also wrote love songs and entertained guests at feasts. These great musicians played many instruments such as drums, pipes, and lyre. A lyre is a wooden instrument made with a sound box and strings.The Sumerians built and invented the lyre. The Sumerian metal-workers made objects like useful weapons and every day objects like cups.
The Babylonians eve created mathematics and astronomy! For instance they created the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles! In the land of Mesopotamia law thrived, they called the laws, codes also known as the code of Hammurabi.
Ancient Mesopotamia was the first empire to create a useful, written form of law! The laws were written and kept by people called scribes. This astonishing empire even used Cuneiform & pictographs. The first empire to create the "wheel", it was used for pottery for making pots. One of there most intelligent ideas was putting arches above the door of there houses in a "U" or a "V" shape. This was common in temples and in wealthy people homes. They had 2,000 symbols that meant items or thoughts, but over time they shortened it to about 700. There language was highly developed language for there time. They wrote there language with there invention a wedge shaped item called a stylus. They used a stylus to edge the writing into, clay tablets. The Sumerians developed cuneiform around 2400 B.C.E. The earliest found examples of cuneiform was used by good Sumerians sent back and forth to one another.It is based on a earlier, simpler form of writing that used pictographs, witch are symbols that stand for rel objects. the marks were put into clay for permanent record, once they dried.
There were many types of craftspeople in Ancient Mesopotamia such as. musicians, metalworkers, painters, and architects. Sumerians believed that music brought joy to the gods and people alike. Musicians played instruments and sang in temples during ceremonies. They also wrote love songs and entertained guests at feasts. These great musicians played many instruments such as drums, pipes, and lyre. A lyre is a wooden instrument made with a sound box and strings.The Sumerians built and invented the lyre. The Sumerian metal-workers made objects like useful weapons and every day objects like cups.
The Babylonians eve created mathematics and astronomy! For instance they created the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles! In the land of Mesopotamia law thrived, they called the laws, codes also known as the code of Hammurabi.