Mesopotamians: The Bronze Age

As stated in document number one, Sumerians created cuneiform script over 5000 years ago. It was written on clay tablets, then baked hard in a kiln, according to document one. Cuneiform was created to track business dealings, keep records, and pass down ideas easily. Cuneiform was the world’s first written language, so you can see how this provided for future civilizations.

Think for a second about a world without civilization, without laws. I bet you don't know who developed civilization! The Mesopotamians did, they also created lots of amazing inventions! Some of these civilizations also developed in China and Egypt. Ancient Mesopotamia. Two contributions from the Mesopotamian Civilization were the invitation of the cuneiform and Hammurabi’s Code.

To start, the Sumerians invented cuneiform, which began the path to written language in the future. Cuneiform was the first written language. It was invented over 5000 years ago! (Doc. 1). They used a stylus to make imprints for writing. Written on the clay tablets it was used to keep records, document business

Mesopotamia is located in the Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. On the Southeast side of Mesopotamia is Sumer and the Persian Gulf. To the east of Mesopotamia are where the Zagros Mountains are located.To the Northwest side of Mesopotamia are where the Taurus Mountains are

Egyptians and Mesopotamians had the greatest advances in medicine during the ancient, but Egyptians were better at medicine than Mesopotamians. While we know that Mesopotamians astronomers had a very high reputation, Egyptians had a wide reputation when it came to their doctors. Egyptian doctors are in high demand, and some kings even had Egyptian doctors working for them. Egyptians had cure for constipation, and had an understanding of how to deal with infected cuts. They used methods such as using moldy bread, which we know is good, because mold is able to kill of some forms of bacteria.

The point of views for each man are shown, showing how their paradox can live in peace even if their chaotic together. The men argue about how his rods do not work and mainly the point that the home owner was trying to prove was that he shouldn’t use people’s fear to gain a profit. He tried to get him to admit that the rods he sold to other villages, churches, and barns had failed in intercepting the lighting. Although, the salesman did not ever admit that his rods never worked, he tried to keep stating that copper is very conductive, but the home owner kept debunking his ideas. The salesman was trying to put fear into the homeowner by saying that he would die if his house would be struck with lighting, but the home owner shows no fear and continues to tell the salesman that his hearth is safer. As mentioned before; this represents religion vs. science because the salesman uses the storm as fear to make a profit and the homeowner uses scientific facts to disprove the salesman. The salesman even tells the homeowner that he cannot ring any doorbells or touch anything in his house or he would get

The Bronze Age started around 2300 BC in Europe and it consisted of the new found material of bronze. It was an important development in many cities during the time. Bronze was used for a multitude of items including weapons, chariot parts, tools, decorative objects, and ritual vessels. The bronze age eventually came to an end because of four major catastrophes that came around 1200 BC that help shape the first millennium. Climate change, migration, new technology, and administrative innovations was the origin of this change.

To begin, the sumerians invented the first form of writing which was called the cuneiform. Instead of using pens, pencils, and paper they used styluses to make wedge shaped symbols on clay tablets when using the cuneiform. Scribers were the ones who would keep track.of business records. His amazing invention also helped with the development of language.

First of All, they invented the first form of writing, called the cuneiform. Sumerians wrote on clay tablets with a special tool called a stylus. Sumerians used cuneiform to make the first symbol. Sumerian writing developed from early symbols called pictographs. They also used writing for business records. Writing was not the only great Sumerian invention. In time Sumerian students went to school to learn how to read and write.

Greeks and Mesopotamians in my point of view shaped their society very similar when it comes to religious beliefs . Greeks were set up like a city state and a King that would be passed down through royal bloodline. Greeks and Mesopotamians did however put power in the men's hand limiting women to little to no power or rights. Mesopotamians were a polytheistic society as well as Greeks. While mesopotamians had a very unique way of religious culturing believing more into many gods Greeks had kings but also believed in gods but in a way that kings would become gods.

They developed cuneiform, which is wedge writing, they also made a system of pictographs. Additionally, they made advances in mathematics and astronomy. They invented the wheel and advanced irrigation systems. They developed swords and plows and they starting making clothing from flax. They also created boats.

The first innovation was bronze it was presented in Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C., was first made utilizing copper and antimony or lead (Matthews, Noble & Platt, 2014). Afterward, smelters made bronze by blending copper and tin, creating a hard composite. This constituted too large numbers of weapons being made with bronze, including swords, knives, and tomahawks (Melheim & Horn, 2014). Furthermore, this empowered the Sumerians to become an intense, warring power. The Sumerians are additionally credited with the making of the wheel, which prompted the improvement of war chariots, enhancing their achievement in the fight.

Between 500 and 1000 BCE hunter-gatherer tribes fixed settlements and that’s how pottery appeared. In the first millennium the BCE groups (Amerindians) were skilled at farming, mining, and metalcraft.

The Sumerians created a lot of old stories that you might of heard of like “ The Epic of Gilgamesh”. Located in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the “ Cradle of Civilization” was born. Geographers helped isolate other city-states. This unit also takes place in Southern Iraq, in 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians had their own government. They had many great ideas that turned into great inventions that still affect people today. My source for this information is Spielvogel page 134 to page 137. The Sumerians created the first written language, and also made advances in science and math.

In the history, the first conception of materials appeared in 1865. It was a book named “Prehistoric Times” (by John Lubbock). And also, he mentioned three-age system in material history.  They are The Stone Age,  The Bronze Age and The Iron Age respectively. The reason why archaeologists called these durations those name is the people who live in that period used different kinds of materials to make different generation of tools.  According to John’s book, The Stone Age is divided into Beginning Of The Stone Age and End Of The  Stone Age.[14] (Source - ?)  The oldest evidence of stone tool found use in fossilised animals bones, in the Lower Awash Valley until now there are 3.4 million years ago.[11] Same as The Stone Age, the first  tool found and made by materials of bronze is the symbol of starting The Bronze Age. But the interesting phenomenon is that in the world, there are various areas’ people  established industry of smelting bronze almost during a millennia, in particular, China is the earliest country found using bronze container named “ding” in the Majiayao culture site (between 3100 and 2700 BC. [12] What’s more, meteoric iron appeared in people’s  view since at least 3200 BC, but people extended the technique of smelting bronze, using carbon or tin to make alloy, and they used this skill in iron properly between around 1200 BC and 600 BC, depending on the region.That is origin of The Iron Age.[13] Furthermore, not only iron, copper and stone, we can find