Mesopotamia -- Society Day 2

Beef, lamb, pork, goat, ducks, and geese were the meats of choice. Fish, turtles, and shellfish were plentiful in the rivers and canals. Barley and wheat were important foods.

The rich lived in large homes, and the poor lived in small homes. But everyone had a home of their own. Most homes were clustered around the ziggurat (the temple). Most houses shared walls, like townhouses do today. People built their homes of sun-dried brick. The roofs were flat. People cooked and slept on their roofs, when weather permitted.

Women in Mesopotamia were not equal to men.

Women were very busy, taking care of the house, the kids, meal preparation, and sewing clothing, plus sometimes working in the fields

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Everyone in Mesopotamia had to pray many times each day to the gods to avoid their anger, no matter how busy they were with other things.

A lot of Praying​

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There were all sorts of jobs and activities. While many people still worked as farmers in the country, in the city a person could grow up to work in a number of different jobs such as priest, scribe, merchant, craftsman, soldier, civil servant, or laborer.

Only wealthy boys could attend school​

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Teachers taught reading, writing, math history, geography, zoology, botany, astronomy, engineering, medicine and architecture.  

They had bows and arrows, sling shots, boomerangs, throw sticks, spinning tops, rattles, jump ropes, hoops, and balls for juggling and other games.  Kids played house using miniature pieces of furniture, beds, tables, stools, dolls, and small animals.  They also had little model vehicles of carts and chariots with wheels that could be pulled on a string.  They had miniature boats that could float.