In Mesopotamia, during 3000 B.C. to 1600 B.C., there were three different cultures that existed one after another and they are: the Sumerian culture, Akkadian culture, and the Babylonia culture. Earliest known civilization in Mesopotamia would start with the Sumerian which was located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and would be the first culture to develop what we would call cities (Sumer, 2018). Sumer was a civilization, over time, that would include approximately thirty cities, and this civilization thrived during the period of 3000 and 2350 B.C. Rulers who ruled over Sumer would all strive to have a fair and stable society, while trying to create a well off culture. Sumerians were very influential in innovations of several …show more content…
In the same way as the other cultures, Babylonian would become known for something as well, one of those is having the first set of laws that came out of Mesopotamian was from king Hammurabi and it was called the Code of Hammurabi (Matthews, Noble, Platt, 2014). Although king Hammurabi developed the laws, he would state that he received them from a god and even though he gave them to the people to be governed by him, he would remind the people that his power and right to make laws and carry out justice came from the gods. In the same way, Babylonians belief in the gods were like other Mesopotamia cultures in that gods created the people to serve them and those same gods were the ones controlling everything and the people had no choice but to do as they gods say and to worship them. Equally important, is how the Babylonians would take the number system that was in place from earlier cultures and would build upon that system by creating complex formulas, equations, and theorems that would assist in helping store owners with operation of their business, plus help with mapping the stars and charts that were used for navigation by astronomers. In conclusion, Babylonia schools would advance in art and architecture with pottery, jewelry, precious gems and metals, and statues that was influenced by artisans using different techniques and the people wanting something different as well (Matthews, Noble, Platt,