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Mesopotamia
Innovations
Homeroom
Wednesday
September28, 2016
B-Day
Work on something silently
.
Tuesday and Wednesday
September 27 and 28, 2016
Homework: Review Materials – Test Day – A 10/4 and B 10/5
Warm-Up:
1. Copy homework into agenda
2. Complete a review on school net on EQ#2 – use your materials to help you.
• Social Studies 6 Unit 2 Mesopotamia EQ 2 Review 20162017 Passcode: VE4DA3BE2
• Social Studies 6 Unit 2 Mesopotamia EQ2 Vocabulary
Review 2016-2017 Passcode: MA5KE5MA5
Field Trip
•Wednesday, October
th
19 , 2016
•Carolina Renaissance
Festival
AE
•Monday, Tuesday, Thursday – Genius Hour
•Wednesday – Study Hall
•Friday – Silent Reading
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EQ#3
•How did technology
and culture influence
future civilizations?
Vocabulary
•Epic – long poems that tell stories of heroes
•Architecture – the science of building
•Hammurabi’s Code – a set of 282 laws that dealt
with almost every part of daily life; the earliest
known written collection of laws
•Alphabet – a set of letters that can be combined to
form words.
Innovations
Early Mesopotamians developed a number of innovations which
greatly improved the lives of the people, particularly in the area
of agriculture.
1. Calendar, which helped them predict floods.
2. Cuneiform Alphabet, one of the first written languages,
made it easier to communicate and keep detailed records.
3. The Epic of Gilgamesh was the first recorded story. It deals
with many of the universal themes and ideas still found in
literature today.
4. Wheel and the plow made farming easier.
Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Hammurabi was a Babylonian king
who consolidated and annotated the
laws into a single code. The code laid
out specific rules of conduct and the
punishments for breaking them.
Hammurabi’s Code Reading
Text
1. Why did Hammurabi have his laws engraved in
stone and placed in a public place?
2. Imagine that Hammurabi live in modern society.
Where might he post his laws so that everyone would see
them?
3. Why do we know more about Hammurabi’s Code than
other early forms of law?
Hammurabi’s Laws: Fair or Cruel?
Define Fair
Define Cruel
Hammurabi’s Laws: Fair or Cruel?
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Cruel
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