Sumerian Achievements

Chapter 3-3Page 65-69

Homework CheckNote Card

• Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) explaining how Sumerian achievements have affected today’s world.

• Use specific inventions/achievements to support your answer.

• Please put your note-card in the pocket when finished and begin bell work.

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• Read the excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh on page 70-71.

• Answer the 2 questions at the bottom of page 71, in complete sentences.

# Date Assignment Grade

1 8/16 Culture Activity /8

2 8/16 Timeline Activity /11

3 8/19 Exit Ticket: Sources /7

4 8/20 Geography Foldable /10

5 8/21 or

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Chapter 1 Map Activity /10

6 8/23 Chapter 1 Group Quiz /30

7 8/26 Chapter 1 Quiz Corrections /2

8 8/26 Exit Ticket: Landforms /12

9 8/27 Social Scientists Advertisements

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10

9/6 Chapter 2: Story Board /20

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9/6 Unit 1 Test /100

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9/9 Unit 1 Test Corrections /2

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9/13 Academic Vocabulary Quiz /20

What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?

• World’s 1st Writing System – Cuneiform (Wedge

Shaped Pictograph)– Scribes (writer used

styluses and clay tablets)

– Keep business records

• Created Epics– Long poems that tell

stories of heroes– Epic of Gilgamesh

• School– Learned to read and

write

• Wheel– 1st wheeled vehicles– Carts and Wagons– Potter’s wheel (clay

into bowls)

• Plow– Farm Production

Sumerian Clay Tablet with Cuneiform

Sumerian Alphabet

Mesopotamian Wheel

Plow and the Oxen

What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?

• Clock– Falling Water– Measured time

• Sewers– Underground Irrigation

• Catalogued their Scientific and Medical Knowledge– Kept records– Used animals, plants,

and minerals to produce healing drugs

– Records of symptoms and treatments

• Math– Concept of 60– 360 Degree Circle– 1 Year=12 months– Areas of triangles and

rectangles

What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?

• Lyre (liar)– Stringed Musical

Instrument

• Bronze and Gold– Make Stronger tools, art,

and jewelry

• Art– Cylinder Seals

• Stone and clay• Most famous artwork• Battle Scenes and Sign

Documents

• Make Up and Glass Jewelry– Jewelry was popular

• Architecture– Science of buildings– Two-story homes with

lots of rooms– Palaces– Ziggurats

• Pyramid shaped temple tower

• Rose above each city• Statues for the gods

Mesopotamian Achievements

Bronze Tools Ziggurat at Ur

Mesopotamian Project• Objective: Create a Mesopotamian Alphabet Picture

Book.Rubric for 100 Points: • 26pts-Each letter must represent a Mesopotamian

idea. The idea must be explained.• 26pts-Each letter must include a picture pertaining

to the explanation.• 26pts-Each page must be in color. The project

must be in booklet form (use something to hold the pages together).

• 22pts-This project should be neatly done, with no spelling/grammatical/historical errors.

Extra Information:• Some pictures/writing can be computer generated

but not the entire book• The project is due Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Optional Mesopotamian Project Assignment

20 Points

• Create a model of the following:– Functioning chariot or wagon (wheel)– Functioning Lyre– Hanging Gardens of Babylon– Ziggurat– Phoenician Ship– Functioning Irrigation System– Cylinder Seal

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Become a Sumerian Scribe

• Clay Tablet• Stylus• Sumerian Script