Mesopotamia Climate And Temperature Essay

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Climate/ Temperature The Mesopotamia’s Climate was usually hot and dry, the temperature then was usually seventy to eighty five degrees fahrenheit. That would mean that it would be a little bit dusty and they could get dehydrated if they didn’t get enough water and if they got be hydrated back then it would be bad because it takes six days to get back to normal and you need to be drinking a lot of water and that would just be something you wouldn’t want to happen to you back then. The climate in the winter was sorta cold and very wet the temperatures were around fifty to sixty degrees in the plains but in the mountains the temperature would sink as low as fifty teen
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He took over all of Mesopotamia and established the first Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi also created and made a set of laws, that is today called the Code of Hammurabi. The Government was ruled by kings.The kings only ruled a single city though, rather than the entire civilization. The code of law actual porn was divided into groups of the lot had to do one thing, slavery were grouped together some of the rules slash laws were Prologue, Legal Procedures, Household laws, Slavery Trade, and business Religion Epilogue. The Mesopotamian social structure was very organized it was very good. There is a or was a high class gentry, the middle class and the lowest class. The government officials, the king, the priests, landowners and the wealthy traders and merchants formed the upper society. Mesopotamian social structure was a little different in every city. Like a city like Ur had three societal structures. The top consisted of the officials, priests and soldiers, the middle had merchants, traders, craftsmen and farmers, but then the last in the order was made up of slaves that were taken over during

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