UNIT 2 ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
MESOPOTAMIA UNIT POWERPOINT
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INTRO TO MESOPOTAMIA BOARD ASSIGNMENT
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MESOPOTAMIA RAP VIDEO
www.youtube.com/watch?v =3MY2ZN3OdXM&list=PLjkNj4yb hzfgcvogliCpnv42fp3usuemO&ind ex=9
6.8 On a historical map, locate and describe the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Zagros and Caucauses Mountains, Persian Gulf, Caspian and Black Sea, Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee and explain why the region is referred to as the Fertile Crescent.(G)
MESOPOTAMIA GEOGRAPHY VIDEO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgOfGKdHcEg
BOARD ASSIGNMENT
app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/c97e7036-9246-4258-b1f6-9586f5e1333b?hasLocalHost=false
6.9 Summarize Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria as successive civilizations and empires and explain the development of city-states, identify Kish, Akkad, Ur, and Nineveh, and the significance of Sargon and Hammurabi.(G,H)
Sargon the Great Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBd2OPAAmYE
Hammurabi Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMx2pw1SIoM
6.10 Trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted economic surplus and the emergence of citis as centers of culture and power. (C,E,H)
6.11 Explain the significance of polytheism as the religious belief of the people in Mesopotamian civilizations.(C,H)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIbEmD8ffA
6.12 Explain the effects of irrigation, metal-smithing, slavery, the domestication of animals, and inventions such as the wheel, sail, and the plow on the growth of Mesopotamian civilizations.(C,E,H)
6.13 Analyze the important achievements of Mesopotamian civilization, including its system of writing (importance in recordkeeping and tax collection), literature (Epic of Gilgamesh), monumental architecture (the ziggurat) and art (large relief sculpture, mosaics, and cylinder seals).(C,E,G,H)
SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS LEGO PART 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2lL20SBiIklist=PLek0G8q2ciWCqGr056PQOwLweD07vb0T0
SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS LEGO PART 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bdU0VU1j4list=PLek0G8q2ciWCqGr056PQOwLweD07vb0T0
Write like a Sumerian!
www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php
6.14 Write an informative piece explaining the significant contributions of Mesopotamian leaders, including Hammurabi and Sargon, and explain the basic principle of justice in Hammurabi’s Code (“an eye for an eye”). (C,E,H,P)
Hammurabi's Code Paper Slide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1r2dvLSKo
Hammurabi's Code Reading
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnAdQFB5eX8
Hammurabi's Code Rap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=84y2q4giihY
Sumerian Achievements Board Assignment
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Unit 2 Mesopotamia Words to Know
Silt
City-state
Surplus
Irrigation
Polytheism
Ziggurat
Metal smithing
Cuneiform
Epic
Canal
Scribe
Architecture
Social Hierarchy/social structure
Geography
Theocracy
Monarchy
Emperor
Study the vocabulary words here:
quizlet.com/147177122/mesopotamia-flash-cards/
Ancient Mesopotamia Webquest
landbetweentherivers.weebly.com/index.html
Quesiton sheet link for webquest
mesopotamia-webquest-revised-2013.pdf
Ancient Mesopotamia Online Games
mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/games.html