Question

What are some cool facts about Ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

Fact 1

Mesopotamian Religion did not believe in the after-life. They believed that all good and bad people go under-ground as ghosts and eat dirt.

Fact 2

They're religion also believed that they were servants of god. If you were to ask a person today why they are here they would say because god loves me. Back in Mesopotamia they would say to be a servant of the gods. Pretty depressing huh?

Fact 3

Mesopotamia invented the wheel, plow, irrigation systems and the sailboat!


Fact 4

Priests would read the livers of chickens or lambs to see what the gods wanted for sacrifices


Fact 4

Priests controlled the irrigation systems and also had more power than the king and queen!

Fact 5

Mesopotamia was the very first civilization

Fact 6

Mesopotamia was made up of individual City-states controlled by different powers. They would eventually attack each other and end up under 1 ruler. The people would retaliate and go back to being city-states. This process was repeated many times.

Fact 7

The Mesopotamian king ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens for his wife because she grew up in the mountains and was homesick!

Fact 8

Mesopotamia was made up of individual City-states controlled by different powers. They would eventually attack each other and end up under 1 ruler. The people would retaliate and go back to being city-states. This process was repeated many times.


Fact 9

In the Mesopotamian religion there are 4 main gods of Earth, Water, Air and the Heavens. And there were 3,000 lesser gods and each represented an everyday item like a pickaxe. If you were mining and the pickaxe slipped and fell on your foot, the god of the pickaxe hated you!