Marriage and Divorce in ancient civilizations.

1. Ancient
Civilizations’
marriage/di
vorce

6. esopotamia
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7. Mesopotamia (Marriage)
In the ancient Mesopotamia, many modern customs
such as wedding can be traced back then. In Mesopotamia,
girls after puberty are considered able to be married. The
groom and the bride need to make a legal marriage contract
first, then the wedding can be held. At the wedding, presents
would be exchanged, a huge feast would be held and all the
groom’s relatives will be invited. The husband also need to pay
the wife and her family a price such as lambs and cows in
order to marry her. However, if the groom died during these
processes, the bride will have to marry the groom’s closest
relative even the groom’s father. After the feast, the bride
would be considered to be a part of the groom’s family.
During the marriage, the wife would stay home and her job is
usually to grind grains, teach and take care of her children,
make food, prepare beverages especially beer. The husband's
job would be to work and support his family money. T

8. Mesopotamia (Divorce)
 During the time of Mesopotamia, divorce is
acceptable, but the wife doesn’t have a lot
of control of it because she can only suggest
it to her father or his husband then it’s up to
them to decide. Once the husband and the
wife’s father has reached an agreement, the
wife’s father will return all the gifts from the
husband, except the ones that have been
consumed. After that, the wife and the
husband are divorced.

9. Marriage

10. Egyptian Marriage
 Very similar Mesopotamians’ marriage custom. The
bride has little freedom of choosing her husband
until 26th dynasty. Most people took relationships
of monogamy except a few monarchies who
married multiple concubines. The common age
for being married is after sexual adulthood
because having children plays a huge part of the
Egyptian relationship. The sexual adulthood is
usually 12-13 for girls and 15-16 for boys. Soon, a
price for marrying a woman became a part of the
Egyptian’s custom. This price can be from farm
animal to huge bars of gold. Unlike some parts of
Greek, most Egyptians don’t care about their
mate’s nation but their social class.

11. Egyptian Divorce
 There were many cases of divorce during
the ancient Egypt and the two main
reasons for divorcing and the following.
Firstly, when a wife or concubine
committed adultery which is having sex
with another man, divorce would be
acceptable. Secondly, if a female partner
was proved to have inability of giving birth
to a child, divorce is also acceptable in
this case.

12. Marriage

13. Divorce

14. Canadian Marriage
 In order to have the rights to be
married, Canadians have to be over 18
years old. Comparing to the ancient
civilizations, Canadian female has
much more freedom of choosing their
mate.

15. Canadian Divorce
 In order to be properly divorced in
Canada, there are about ten procedures
to go through. Personally, I think the most
important process is choosing the
children’s future responsible parent
because the children can easily be hurt
during this process.

16. Marriage

17. Roman Marriage
 Rome is known for its strictness and therefore,
there are less freedom for the intended
couples. So basically, the marriages are
planned by parents and there will be a gift for
the male’s family sent y the female’s family. In
the modern days, Christian weddings are
directed by Christian priests. In the ancient
Rome, everybody has to believe in the Rome
gods but the priests do no direct the
wedding, instead, a set of rituals was
followed.

18. Greece Divorce
 Divorces in Rome are very convenient,
the male just need to pay back the
present that the female’s family has given
him at the wedding. However, the
payback requires money not the gift it
self.

19. Greece Divorce

20. Marriage

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