Question

tell me about Mesopotamian family life

Answer 1

All of Mesopotamia's social classes lived in the city, including the nobility, the royals and their families, priests and priestesses, free commoners, clients of the nobility or temples and slaves.

Answer 2

In ancient Mesopotamia families were very important. The family was the basic unit of society and there were certain things that could and could not be done. For example, a woman living in Mesopotamia could do or go anywhere she wanted as long as she had her husband's permission. In the case of a divorce, both the man and the woman would pay a fine, and if there were no children, the divorce was easy. If the couple did have children, the woman faced severe penalties. The children in a family had to respect their parents because disrespecting parental figures was considered a grave sin. If the family was in a incredibly bad financial situation, then the children would be sold even though selling children was considered a bad omen. Males were the prefered gender in ancient Mesopotamia and the men in Mesopotamia were far more powerful than the women.