Important Qualities of Cities
Additions for Growing Communities
Transportation
- Produced own writing systems for records and communication
- Trade emerged when villages grew and encouraged urbanization
Additions for Growing Communities
- Walls and gates around civilizations for protection
- Hammurabi Code of Law was established
Transportation
- First road systems that lead carts in and out of other cities to transport high valued goods and people
- Contained a constant amount of traffic when in use
- Important for agriculture and commerce purposes
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Religious Structures
- Temples provided a place to teach literacy, religion, science, and law
- Ziggurats were buildings with stacked squares, decreasing as you go up
- Thought to be built as the home for the Gods and people provided offerings too