• August 6, 2015Check Absent Binder if you have been absent at all this

week!

Phones in pockets

Mesopotamia

GSPRITE chart

HW:

Neolithic Revolution Flow Chart

DUE TOMORROW

Map of Fertile Crescent

DUE TOMORROW

GSPRITE Chart

G: Geography

S: Social

P: Political

R: Religion

I: Intellectual

T: Technology

E: Economics

Indo-European Migrations4 million-2 million BC

The Crossroads of Three Continents

The Fertile Crescent: “The Cradle of

Civilization”

How do you think the early

Mesopotamians solved these issues?

ISSUES

Unpredictable Annual Flooding

Leaves fertile silt

Followed by period of intense

drought

No natural barriers

Defenseless

Scarce natural resources

SOLUTIONS

Built irrigation canals

Allowed for crop surplus

Built city walls

Traded their goods for raw

materials like stone, wood, and

metal

How did the development of agriculture lead to all of this?

Mesopotamia

“ The Land Between

the Rivers”

Tigris and Euphrates

Rivers in modern

day Iraq

A region, not an

empire

SUMER

Ziggurat

Sumerian Society

City States:Each city controlled

adjacent territory

Cities were controlled by a king

Kings were linked to a deity

Social Class System 4 Classes

Priests(King)

Nobles(Landowners)

Farmers

Slaves

King

Nobles, Priests,

Scribes

Artisans, Tradesmen,

Shop Keepers

Unskilled Workers

Sumerian Society

Religion

Polytheistic: belief in more than

one god

Built large ziggurats to worship

and please the gods

Believed afterlife was a dismal

“land of no return”

Literature

Epic of Gilgamesh

Sumerian Society

Technology

Wheel, sail, the plow, and bronze

Arithmetic and Geometry

Number system based around the number 60

Basis for 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute

360 degrees for a circle

Architecture

Arches, columns, ramps, and pyramid shape

Writing system

Cuneiform

Cuneiform: Wedge-Shaped Writing

The Babylonian Empire Babylonians overtake Sumerians around 2,000 BCE

Empire stretches from Persian Gulf to Asia Minor

(modern-day Turkey)

Crossroads of trade caravans between Asia, North

Africa, and Asia Minor

Hanging gardens of Babylon

Babylon Society

Babylonia’s greatest ruler was

Hammurabi

Hammurabi’s Law Code

Series of laws, mainly

concerning trade and property

rights

Many laws based on retaliation

“Eye for an eye”

Assyrians take over in 650 BC

Take away points

Geography:

importance of location between three empires = easy to invade

Dry environment influenced technology (irrigation) and economy (trade)

Religion: polytheism

Society: different classes, organizations, Hammurabi Law Code

Importance of agriculture in developing civilizations

August 7, 2015

Turn in Fertile Crescent Map in your class period’s bin on

student supply table

If you do not turn in either one of these assignments,

you MUST fill out a yellow sheet!

Put phones in pockets

Check Absent Binder if you were absent

Hammurabi’s Code Activity

HW: Work on Vocab and Finish US punishments wkst.

Hammurabi’s Law Code Activity

Read each law from Hammurabi’s

Law Code

With your partner, rewrite the law in

your own words

Then decide whether you think the

law is fair or not and write down your

answer

US Laws Worksheet

You are Hammurabi

Read the US crime and its punishment

and decide how Hammurabi would

punish the offender

Then read the US punishment and as

Hammurabi decide whether the US

punishment is too weak or too harsh