Life in Mesopotamia
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- We need water! when is the flood coming?!
- How would I know?
- Hello I am a king and I will be in charge during war.
- May the gods protect you.
- So do you know when the flood is coming now?
- I think in about 3 more moons.
- In Mesopotamia floods and droughts were very unpredictable.
- Well you're just in luck, I'm rich so I have this bored game we can play.
- I'm bored.
- There had to be different leaders (stronger people) when wars would happened
- I wonder who decided to make time go by so slow
- It was us, sorry.
- The people had to use the moon to tell when things like floods were coming.
- I didn't know!!!
- you killed someone so now you shall be killed!!!
- The laws are everywhere in public.
- Board games have been around for a very very long time. One of the earliest board game goes all the way back to 3100 BC. When people had extra time (mostly the richer ones) they could make board games.
- The Sumerians were the ones who started keeping track of time first. They also came up with the calender and spread one day into 12 hours, 24 in total.
- Hammurabi's code was eye for an eye, so to get even. For example, if someone kills someone, they shall be killed. They also put all the laws in public so people couldn't use the excuse "I didn't know".
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