Mesopotamia Job Research Links

 General Sites

http://landbetweentherivers.weebly.com/daily-life.html

Daily Life in a Mesopotamian City: What Exactly Was It Like?

Daily Life in Mesopotamia

Daily life of Mesopotamian Commoners 

Mesopotamia Daily Life: The Making of a New Civilization

What people ate

https://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html 

How People Dressed

Clothes Worn in Mesopotamia 

Mesopotamian clothing

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2198/fashion--dress-in-ancient-mesopotamia/ 

Women’s Lives in Mesopotamia

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html

Women in Sumer

Social Systems 

http://www.crystalinks.com/sumersocialsystem.html

Upper Class in Mesopotamia

Economy and Trade

http://www.crystalinks.com/sumereconomy.html

https://www.historyonthenet.com/mesopotamia-trade-and-merchants

https://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/commerce.html

The Sumerians 

https://mesopotamiaapworld.wordpress.com/specialized-workers/ 

Architecture

https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/sumerian-architecture 

Writing and Scribes

Writing in Sumer

Scribes in ancient Mesopotamia

How Do We Know? Sumerian Scribes, U Penn Museum 

The Worlds Oldest Writing

Weavers

Mesopotamian Ancient Basket Weaving Technology and the Sumerian Reed Industry

Mesopotamian cloth making

Trade of cloth

Reed boats 

Reed  boats 2

Beer and Brewing

http://classroom.synonym.com/brewing-ancient-mesopotamia-10035.html 

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/tcaw/10/i12/html/12chemchron.html

Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia

Brewers and beers

Beer, drink and food

Ancient tavern found

Artisans and Potters 

http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/artisans_art_craftsmen.php

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cultures/mesopotamia_gallery.shtml

http://landbetweentherivers.weebly.com/daily-life.html

 https://www.historyonthenet.com/mesopotamian-artisans-and-craft-workers/

Goldsmiths and Silversmiths

Sumerian Jewelry – A Journey Into The Vault Of Ancient Mysteries

Sumerian Jewelry

History of Granulation

Musicians

Ancient Mesopotamian Music 

The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music U of PENN

https://youtu.be/dCOawIA4b0o 

https://www.uncoveringsound.com/standard-of-ur-lyre-player-singer/ 

https://dbpedia.org/page/Music_of_Mesopotamia

Farmers

Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent & Mesopotamia 

Mesopotamian Agriculture 

Fishing

Fishing in Sumerian Times

How Fishing Created Civilization

Tax Collectors

U. Penn Museum-Taxes in the Ancient World 

Taxes in Ancient Mesopotamia

Kings/Rulers

How to Be King in Mesopotamia

The Responsibilities of the King in Ancient Mesopotamia

https://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/famous_rulers_of_ancient_mesopotamia.php 

Priests and Priestesses

Priests’ duties

Mesopotamian Priests and Priestesses