Compare And Contrast American Culture And Mesopotamian Culture
Mesopotamian culture had different levels of living depending upon ones social ranks.
Kings of course lived in palaces. In the cities homes were built out from the center of settlement, which was the temple with its ziggurat. The wealthiest and highest on social ladder lived close to the center. The homes of the affluent were built of sun-dried bricks while those of people of lesser means would have been constructed from reeds. It is to be noticed that their houses were still called homes and not huts.
Children were raised according to their gender roles. Boys were raised learning skills and girls were raised to be wives and mothers. Once a child was of marrying age, families would arrange a marriage. At the marriage ceremony it is believed
that the husband would pour perfume onto the head of his new bride. After becoming a wife, a woman's role was to cook, clean, and raise children. Men were the bread earners they used to go out and women stayed at home and look after their house and children. If a woman had a job it was usually related to one of her household tasks.
The role of the king was established at some point after 3600 BCE and, unlike the priest-rulers who came before, the king directly dealt with the people and made his will clear through laws of his own. Before concept of a king, the priestly rulers were believed to have dictated the law according to religious precepts and received divine messages through signs; the king while still honoring gods, was considered a powerful enough representative of those gods to be able to speak their will through his own mandate, using his own voice.
Kings of course lived in palaces. In the cities homes were built out from the center of settlement, which was the temple with its ziggurat. The wealthiest and highest on social ladder lived close to the center. The homes of the affluent were built of sun-dried bricks while those of people of lesser means would have been constructed from reeds. It is to be noticed that their houses were still called homes and not huts.
Children were raised according to their gender roles. Boys were raised learning skills and girls were raised to be wives and mothers. Once a child was of marrying age, families would arrange a marriage. At the marriage ceremony it is believed
that the husband would pour perfume onto the head of his new bride. After becoming a wife, a woman's role was to cook, clean, and raise children. Men were the bread earners they used to go out and women stayed at home and look after their house and children. If a woman had a job it was usually related to one of her household tasks.
The role of the king was established at some point after 3600 BCE and, unlike the priest-rulers who came before, the king directly dealt with the people and made his will clear through laws of his own. Before concept of a king, the priestly rulers were believed to have dictated the law according to religious precepts and received divine messages through signs; the king while still honoring gods, was considered a powerful enough representative of those gods to be able to speak their will through his own mandate, using his own voice.