Ubaid Women In Mesopotamia

Founded by the Ubaid people in 5900 B.C.E. Mesopotamia was known as the “Land between Rivers” and was positioned between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These rivers often provided the people with water, since this region normally received only eight inches of rain per year. The Tigris and Euphrates were known to be ferocious and erratic, and would often overflow the lands. These reasons alone made life in Mesopotamia harsh, crude, and unpredictable. Even the Tigris would sporadically change the course of its path during the course of the year. Harsh grainy sand made it hard to grow agriculture in this region. So, the Ubaid people developed an irrigational system and a system of sophisticated canals. With these canals the Ubaid farmers would attempt to control the water levels during the flood seasons and divert the excess water into the irrigational canals. (Their History And Their Culture Eighteenth Edition, pg.8) …show more content…
Women were once treated a very different than what we see in a lot of today’s social order. Over the course of history men have wiped out the knowledge high ranking women and goddesses and morphed these images into men. During this time period, women were treated more like property, than an individual capable of making her own decisions. Born into ownerships, their fathers then sold their daughters once they hit puberty to their selected husband; they were not too be seen or heard (pg.3 Western Attitudes Towards Women). The price that would be paid by the husband would vary of money or of trade of goods. Women had no voices, little rights, and held very little job opportunities. Yet, in the absents of their men, women were able to attend legal matters, and would also do shopping out in the marketplaces. (