Ancient Mesopotami Economy And Social Class - 1725 Words

Brianna Aronson Adekunle West Civ. HS 101-21 14 November 2014 Ancient Mesopotamia: Economy and Social Class In history, transitions were constantly being made all over the world. From new civilizations being created and discovered, to solving problems about food shortages or economy. Every civilization made transitions each day to advance their society to make living easier for all its people. In these civilizations they each had different economic systems and social classes, which told them the people worship and the people who were nothing more than slaves. More specifically is the Mesopotamian Civilization; they encountered and conquered various issues due to their industrial improvements through out time. The word†¦show more content†¦Mesopotamia has two kinds of agriculture: dry farming in the North (Assyria) and irrigation farming in the south (Babylonia and Sumer)† (Rhea Nemet-Nejat, 253). They used their northern land to raise the animals to produce those products and used the southern land to grow crops. All of these things for valuable to have so that they could trade. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers were the only way to make this possible, but they were constantly flooding which was bad for their land. To stop the flooding they created an irrigation system. This way they could control the way the rivers flow and prevent flooding. The irrigation system was also a great advancement for the civilization because of the hot climate which would dry out the soil with out it. Because this system was so important, it was a duty for the king to keep it working efficiently. Scribes and overseers managed the projects, and the common people were ordered to work on them through the system of forced labor. To be able to farm the people needed the equipment to do so. Farming tools were made of stone and bone. Metals such as bronze were far too expensive to use in this way, while copper was too soft for most uses. With all of the successful agriculture in