OBJECTIVE: Through collaboration and planning, you will rebuild an ancient city of Mesopotamia

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The Details:• Each CLASS PERIOD will be responsible for building ONE city• Within each class, each TABLE GROUP will have a specific building or buildings that they

are responsible for constructing• Buildings that need to be constructed include: Ziggurat (if one existed), City Wall,

Houses, Marketplace, Canals, Palaces, Temples (if no Ziggurat), Major Innovation• Your city should also include space for farmland and irrigation

The Resources:• You have a wealth of resources available, as many of these great city-states can be

found online as can examples of the various buildings you will build• Materials to construct the buildings will need to come from you. Look for things

around the home that can be used, such as cardboard, shoe boxes, Legos, blocks, etc. -- Over --An example of a city layout, this was the city of Ur

LEARNING TARGETS: You will use this project to gain a better understanding of how these great city-states were laid out and why they were designed/built as they were (spatial perspective!). You’ll also, in

some way, represent a major innovation of the civilization whose city you are constructing.

Ziggurats like this one in Nineveh existed in Sumeria, Babylon and Assyria

The Product:• The city can be laid out as buildings are finished, it does NOT have to happen all at once• You will be graded on the completion of your table group’s buildings• Each class period MUST have its city completed by Thursday, September 26

The Cities• Nineveh (Assyria) Kish (Sumer) Babylon (Babylon)• Akkad (Sumer/Akkadia) Assur (Assyria) Uruk (Sumer)

A section of houses in the city of Kish in the Sumerian Civilization

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The Plan:• Class will be assigned its city and each table group will receive it’s building assignments• You will then need to decide on roles for each team member• ONE person from each group will be chosen as a Council Member• Council Meetings will convene to determine the city layout; First meeting will be used to

determine how much space will be allocated for each table group’s building needs• You will be given ONE day in the computer lab to research your city and the specific

building/buildings your table is responsible for constructing• You will be given no more than TWO days in class for project work, and possibly 10

minutes on any given day at the end of class