Marriage In Mesopotamian Society

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire.In AD 226, it fell to the Sassanid Persians and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire. Many rulers self-declared themselves rulers from 5000-3500 BCE. So while romantic love did play a part in Mesopotamian marriages, it is true that, according to the customs and expectations of Mesopotamian society, marriage was a legal contract between the father of a girl and another man (the groom, as in the case of the bride auction where the groom paid the girl's father the bride-price) or, more commonly, between two families, which functioned as the foundation of a community.Ancient mesopotamia was not a centralized government
Humans were created as co-laborers with their gods to hold off the forces of chaos and to keep the community running smoothly.Mesopotamian afterlife beliefs include burials, grave inscriptions, economic texts recording disbursements for funerals or cults of the dead, references to death in royal inscriptions and edicts, chronicles, royal and private letters, lexical texts, cultic commentaries, magico-medical texts, omens, and curse formulas.Mesopotamian beliefs in the afterlife come from distinct periods in Mesopotamian history and encompass Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures. We should therefore be careful not to view Mesopotamian afterlife beliefs as static or uniform. Like all cultural systems, Mesopotamian ideas of the afterlife transformed throughout time. Beliefs and practices relating to the afterlife also varied with socioeconomic status and differed within official and popular religious paradigms.The normal day of a Mesopotamian was based on what type of work they did. Like many civilizations we will study, the Mesopotamians had a social structure where not everyone was equal. At the top, with the most power, were the priests. Below them were the king's, officials, and soldiers. The next level were the merchants, traders, and craftsmen. The farmers were next. Finally, with the least amount of power, were the slaves.A ziggurat was a temple than ancient Mesopotamians built to worship the Gods and Goddesses. Ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient Mesopotamia. Built with sun-baked bricks, and shaped a lot like a pyramid. The Mesopotamian ziggurats were not places for public worship or ceremonies. they were believed to be dwelling places for the gods. Each city had its own patron god and ziggurat. Only priests were permitted inside the ziggurat, because it was their job to talk to the Gods and Goddesses. The