Mesopotamia: Mari, Isin, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Lagas, and Babylon.
Mesoamerica: Teotihuacán, Tula, Monte Albán, Palenque, and Tikal
The government of ancient Mesopotamia was an unusual form of government. There was a King and his nobles that decided everything for the country. The type of government that Mesoamerica had was a Confederacy.
Mesopotamians believed that the world was flat. They believed that water was everywhere and the universe came from the sea. They also had polytheistic beliefs.
Mesoamericans also had polytheistic beliefs. The gods had to be constantly offered sacrifices and offerings.
Art
Religion
Writing
Mesopotamia & Mesoamerica
Carlos Salazar
Mesopotamia had pictogram's first then developed into a script called cuneiform.
Mesoamerica had hieroglyphs, 5 or 6 documented scripts, and the classic Maya Script.
Cities
Government
Social Structure
Mesoamerican was split up between nobles, commoners, serfs, and slaves. Nobles were rulers and government officials. Commoners were farmers, laborers, and servants. Serfs worked on land owned by the rulers and government officials. Slaves were mainly criminals or people in debt.
Mesopotamia was made up of land owners, people who were free but did not own land, and slaves. The most privileged had the highest responsibility and if committed a crime would have longer sentence. If a low class committed a crime the punishment was less unless it was committed against a person of a higher class.
Mesoamerica: Visual arts, music, dance, literature, decorative motifs, and iconography.
Mesopotamia: forms of sculpture of stone and clay and many paintings.
