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Start here: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html World History: Explore Ancient Mesopotamia Please respond to all these prompts --you will get a chance to explore the following topics on the website about Ancient Mesopotamia presented by the British Museum. Please complete every task… What does the pictographic symbol of barley look like? (Use words to describe.) How much is a gur? What is the symbol for 10 gur? How were cuneiform wedges made? What English word is the same as the Sumerian pronunciation of their word for Barley? Name five different things recorded in cuneiform. On a separate piece of paper use the pictographs and/or cuneiform from one specific time period to communicate something—you must use a minimum of four “signs or cuneiform wedges”. (You can complete the sentence with some English helping words, articles, etc…) What does it mean to be a hero? Who was the famous hero of the ancient Sumerians? Basically what does he do to gain the status of a hero? What is a ziggurat? What have archeologists discovered about what ziggurats were? What did ancient Sumerians believe the world was made up of? What did they think happened to spirits after death? What did they believe about the sun, moon, and the planet Venus? What kinds of things would people or kings leave in the temples and why? What was the temple at Nippur called? Meaning…? Were the ziggurats used continuously throughout world history? What was important about the job of “astrologer” in Ancient Mesopotamia? What kinds of things could be interpreted by watching the stars and planets of the night sky? Who were some of the people involved in the deciphering of cuneiform tablets? What kinds of things have we learned through their work? Who were the Sasanians? When did they control Mesopotamia? When did Ashurnasipal II rule Assyria? Where was his capital? Start here: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html Where is the ancient city of Agade (Akkad)? When were Sumerian cities united by the leader King Sargon there? How many graves were found at the large cemetery at Ur. When did modern people begin studying about ancient Mesopotamia? Why did people begin to explore the areas of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? What kept people from knowing all about the Mesopotamian cultures when they first started to find ancient cuneiform tablets? What role did a man called “Herodotus” play in uncovering the past of Mesopotamia? How has map-making changed since the time of Claudius James Rich? What was found at the palace of the Assyrian King Sargon II? When was Nimrud the capital of Assyria? How do we know that people in England in the 19th century liked Assyrian art? What is the claim to fame of British archeologist Henry Rawlinson? Describe the scene carved into the “relief” found at Bisitun? What made it possible for the excavation at Babylon to accomplish so much work? Which came first? Ur becomes the capital of a new empire OR Hammurabi unites much of Mesopotamia under his leadership? Which came first? Assyrians conquer much of Mesopotamia OR the Royal Tombs of Ur were constructed? Which came first? The development of pictographic record keeping or cuneiform develops from signs? When were the first clay envelopes developed? When was cuneiform used to write Uratian language? When was the last dateable cuneiform text “written”? When were long poems first written? How long did it take for temple platforms to be built “higher”. How much later for the building of the first “ziggurat”? How much later for ziggurats to be build in north Mesopotamia? How much longer for ziggurats to go out of use? When was the first written account of war? Start here: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html Make at least 10 “trading cards” of the gods, goddesses, demons, and monsters important to the people of Ancient Mesopotamia. Read the passage above. Study the website sections about Mesopotamian Gods, Goddesses, Demons, and Monsters. Write a five paragraph story telling about a “supernatural” occurrence between a scribe and one or more of the beings. Scribes in ancient Mesopotamia Literacy was not widespread in Mesopotamia. Scribes, nearly always men, had to undergo training, and having successfully completed a curriculum became entitled to call themselves dubsar, which means 'scribe'. They became members of a privileged élite who might look with contempt upon their fellow citizens. Understanding of life in Babylonian schools is based on a group of Sumerian texts of the Old Babylonian period. These texts became part of the curriculum and were still being copied a thousand years later. Schooling began at an early age in the é-dubba, the 'tablet house'. Although the house had a headmaster, his assistant and a clerk, much of the initial instruction and discipline seems to have been in the hands of an elder student; the scholar's 'big brother'. All these had to be flattered or bribed with gifts from time to time to avoid a beating. Apart from mathematics, the Babylonian scribal education concentrated on learning to write Sumerian and Akkadian using cuneiform and on learning the conventions for writing letters, contracts and accounts. Scribes were under the patronage of the Sumerian goddess Nisaba. In later times her place was taken by the god Nabu whose symbol was the stylus (a cut reed used to make signs in damp clay).