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What does Mesopotamia
mean?
Topic: “MESOPOTAMIA (P.56 )
SECTION 1: GEOGRAPHY OF THE FERTILE
CRESCENT
Fertile Crescent
a large arch of rich farmland
silt (57)
=mixture of rich soil & tiny rocks
When and how were farming
settlements established
in Mesopotamia?
cause><effect
C: people growing crops along Tigris/Euphrates
E: population grows, so form settlements
irrigation (58)
=supplying water to fields
(helps store water for times of need)
1) irrigation makes farmers more productive
2) leads to a food surplus (lots of extra food)
3) so…less people are needed to farm
what are they going to do?
4) the labor (work) becomes divided
-Division of Labor
Each worker specializes in a particular kind of work.
(We don’t need you as a farmer, so now you can be
a doctor, builder, painter… yea! 
canals (58)
=human made water-ways
>Summary
If we did not need you
to be a farmer, what would
you like to do? What would
you hate to do?
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I would like to be a…
“between the rivers
A) Tigris B) Euphrates
I would never want to do or be…
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The Sumerians created
rural (62)
urban (62)
Topic: “MESOPOTAMIA (P.62 )
SECTION 2: THE RISE OF SUMER
Most Sumerians live
city-state (62)
=rural*
=city+all countryside around it
How was Sargon able to
build the first empire?
*He used permanent ARMY to defeat
all the city states of Sumer.
empire (63)
land w/ different territories & people
under a single rule (ha ha ha).
polytheism (64)
priests (65)
Why did priests have such
high status (power)?
the worship of many gods
people who performed religious ceremonies
because people believed the priests gained
the god’s favor
What could the gods do?
1) power over harvests (farming)
2) floods, illness, health, wealth ($$$)
social hierarchy (65)
=division of society by rank or class
(how important are youuuuu? in society)
What purpose did the wall
around the city serve?
-protect the city from attack
>Summary
Why do you think the
temple is the largest
building in Ur?
(See map on pg. 65)
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In my opinion…
the world’s first advanced society.
=countryside (ruuuuuuuuuuraaaal)
=city
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cuneiform (67)
pictographs (68)
HOW did Sumerians write?
scribe (68)
Topic: MESOPOTAMIA (P.67 )
SECTION 3: SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS
=world’s first writing system! WOW!
=picture symbols
>used sharp stylus & made wedge-shaped symbols
on clay tablets
=writer (created the words de-scribe)
Scribes kept track of items people traded or gov.
records
epics (68)
=long poems that tell stories of heroes (protagonist)
Copy 8 pictographs down
from pg. 68
draw here:
One huge Sumerian
technical development…
=the wheel! Yeah..
=the calendar (year divided by 12 months)
architecture (70)
Center of Sumerian cities
=the science of building
temple=ziggurat-pyramid shaped tower (71)
Medicine
1) they used ingredients from animals, plants,
minerals,
2) use: milk, turtle shells, fig, salt
A) Area of rectangles / triangles
B) Developed math system based on number 60
(*calendar=12 months5 x12 =60)
Mathematics
Plow
>Summary
Tell me two Surian
accomplishments that you
are most impressed by and
why?
=is like a tractor!
plow is pulled by oxen
plow does what?--> digs a canal!
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The first accomplishment that impresses me…
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Topic: MESOPOTAMIA (P.74 )
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SECTION 4: SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS
monarch (74)
=a ruler or a kingdom or empire
Mr. G is the monarch of room 607
Hammurabi was a
HOW did he conquer
Mesopotamia? -
brilliant war leader
Hammurabi’s Code*
-set of 282 laws (Wow! so many rules  )
-the laws dealt with every part of daily life
chariot (76)
=a wheeled horse drawn cart used in battle
alphabet (79)
=set of letters that can be combined to form words
-different than pictography-which is a symbol
>Summary
Write two of your favorite
Hammurabi laws from page
75--
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He expanded his power through military VICTORIES