Sumer

Babylonia is an ancient country of Mesopotamia which came after Sumer and Akkad which lasted about 1200 years. It was ruled by a king who had absolute power and under him was monarch who exercised legislative and judicial as well as executive powers. The life of the Babylonians was modified that of the Sumerian in accordance with their own culture and beliefs. Throughout 1200 years, there were no major changes in its way of life as the system proved to be highly effective. Trade was critical to Old Babylonia, where many highly prized natural resources were scarce but agricultural goods were in surplus.

A vibrant trading system developed, bringing manufactured goods and raw materials from as far as Turkey, and even India, 1500 miles away. Trade became integral to the economy and the culture. In this lesson, students explore the trade industry in Old Babylonia and its far-flung influence. That was life for the Babylonian citizens.

They were unable to defend themselves against stronger groups.

Come to the company picnic and find out!

some upper-class women became priestesses(a role of honor),free women could own land, also could work as merchants, and artisans, such as weavers but their main role was to take care of their children

They divided an hour into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds.

It means that there was no one major government but many smaller villages or "city states".

sumerians were religous so they worship gods and temples are part of the "method" that they worth the god

yes

Irrigation

Neighboring Sumerians and the Akkadians were bilingual.

there religion was to worship many gods. if it rained they would think the "rain god" was making it rain. if it snowed they would think the "snow god" is making it snow, etc. they believed there was gods for everything. their church was a ziggurat. the young boys had to go to school. they had to write in cuneiform. they studied to become a script which was a very skilled cuneiform writer, that is what the boys were supposed to grow up to be, while the girls stayed at home and cooked and cleaned.

The leader ship in sumer changed by declairing a new leader

no it is not a monarchy is a leader in the govern ment i think

Sumerians used wedge shaped symbols called cuneiform. The symbols represented words.

the hebrews

the sumerians belived that the gods needed to grow more plants and food or put up more wall to protect there homes

People started migrating for food.

For defense-to keep people that didn't want in the city out of the city.

Well, according to my book.... " the river water that ran through the holes made channels in the soil. The Sumerians made the the channels larger until they became canals" answered by 11 year-old 2013

Ox carts and boats

Mud brick.

yes the egyptians used hieroglyphics but im not sure about the sumerians.

Persian Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km). Royal messengers, who, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, were stopped by "neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night," traversed the entire road in nine days, thanks to a system of relays. Normal travel time was about three months. Alexander the Great made use of the Royal Road in his invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire. It was modified after the occupation of Babylon.

The wall's bricks were made from local mud.