Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia music

the instrument that Mesopotamia's played was the harp, lyries, luties, reed pipes and the drums. Many of these were shared shared with neighboring cultures like East Africa with the lires and West Africa with the lutes. Each instrument had its own unique song. Every song that was made was 9-10 minutes. The song would only be played  during birthday parties, weddings and during parties in general      

                   Mesopotamia Trade and Transport

Mesopotamia was a country where it didn't have many natural resources. So Mesopotamia had to trade with countries beside it like syria and Iran.Mesopotamia traded grains, gasoline  and textiles to forgein countries and the other countries traded timber, wine, precious metals and stones. Merchant's used several ways to transport what they traded depending on the item. For example grain was quite huge and was best transported by boat or precious stones were small so they would be transported by foot or donkey.

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mesopotamian money

                               Mesopotamian Money

Mesopotamian money was made with paper but they also had coins. Paper money was very symbolic because paper was not used for anything else. Paper was also a form of monitry because of the use of paper and ink. Coins had a symbol of a person and any kind of animal. It was valued what it was made of. The coins were made of gold, silver, and bronze. The coins were priced with what it was made out of for example if I bought a sheep for 10 dollars it would be called10 silver coins. Anything 5 and under is braze coins, anything 10 - 20 is silver , and finally if anything is 20 and up is gold coins are used.

sports ancient Mesopotamian's played

Mesopotamian sports

The sport that Mesopotamian's played was usually man hunting games. They would hunt for lions and elephants. They would also go fishing and play a lot of boxing or wrestling. But they would play a lot of bored games. One of the games that was played was one of the other team members had to kick one person on the other team and run to the third base is the person catches up and kicks you back you are out. they would also play arm wrestling.  

ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

On my trip to mesopotamia i would like to see artifacts and multicultural  people. When i am back in time in 1107 B.C.E i will Want to see how did they build their empire and their houses and what did they sleep on. And what did they eat. in ancient mesopotamia i want to learn how they made their weapons and how did they fight. in ancient mesopotamia i want to know how did they trade from different countries and how did they get to different countries. when I am  back in time I will want to see they ate and what they ate off of and i will like to know how people communicated to each other and what words did they use. the most important artifact i want to see is masks and sculptures of the temple that they worshiped.

in Babalon, mesopotamia i would like to see the big wall or protection they made to save them from the criminals. i also like to ask someone why they build a wall instead of a building or a building instead of a wall. i would like to learn how the economy works. i also want to know how the Goverment works

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