Mesopotamia Extra Credit

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• Enslaved people

• Free Sumerian citizens

• Noble leaders

• A long poem about heroes

• A Greek poem translated into many languages

• An account of wars written in poem form

• He lost a battle to the king of Akkad

• He tried to reach the nearest sea but was stopped along the way

• He defended his city against a large Egyptian army

• He conquered most of the other Sumerian cities.

• A drought caused a shortage of water and food in the Akkadian Empire

• The Akkadian Empire was cursed by the northern Mesopotamian gods

• Southern Mesopotamian cities were stealing water from northern cities

• It was meant for drawing beautiful pictures.

• It let them stop using Egyptian hieroglyphs.

• It helped them save clay.

• It could be used to write about complex ideas

• It suggests that people valued artistic expression over a stable food supply.

• It suggests that only artisans were allowed to have food from the stable food supply.

• It suggests that people had time and energy for expressions of art because they were not worried about having enough food to eat

• It suggests that in times of famine (not enough food), artistic expression increased.

• It is evidence that Sumer developed a stable food supply

• It is evidence that Sumer used writing to record farming information

• It is evidence that Sumer had a government directing agricultural practices

• It is evidence that the arts were more important than farming in Sumer