Mesopotamia by Kelley L.
In Mesopotamia there were many civilizations such as, the Babylonian, Assyrians, and Sumerians. Did you know that Mesopotamia means ’’land between the rivers’’? Well that’s where it got its name, Mesopotamia means between two rivers. Archeologists found Mesopotamia under a baron desert. In case you didn’t know Sumerians were the first civilization in Mesopotamia. Can you believe that the Sumerians were the first people to use writing? “Cuneiform’’ was the name of the writing that the Sumerians used. As a matter of fact cuneiform looked like small triangles in many different patterns. Another interesting fact about the Sumerians is that they believed in afterlife. Something that really surprised me was that the king never died alone, what I mean by this is that when a king died people would drink poising and lay down in the kings tomb to die. The reason they did this is so they could serve him in his after life. One German archeologist found a tomb that had a headless queen, and when they found the queens head it was covered and surrounded in gold. One other thing that they found was a lyre. A lyre is a small musical instrument that resembles a harp. Sumerians also believed in gods. It is to be believed that the Sumerians had 3000 gods. Can you imagine having to carry around your backpack full of clay tablets? Well the children in Mesopotamia used to have to. You will soon learn that teachers used to write on the left side of the clay tablets and students used to have to write on the right. As you might have known girls in most ancient cultures didn’t go to school. Girls stayed home and learned the house while boys went to school. If a boy was good at writing and if he liked it after school he could become a scribe. Teachers at these schools were called “big brothers” and if a student didn’t have good handwriting or if he was late or misbehaved these teachers would beat them. If you didn’t know this before you do now. If you didn’t know how to sign your name you would have a marked seal. A marked seal is a round piece of clay that has your name imprinted in it. The way you would use this seal is you would press the seal into the soft clay and it would leave an imprint in the clay. Now you know about the schools. Now you know about the schools and about the culture of ancient Mesopotamia
