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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
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
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
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”
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