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Name:
Date:
Mr. Carey/Mr. Clarke
Do Now: Quiz
Directions: Respond to the question below in your World History Notebook
1. Were the Babylonians monotheistic or polytheistic? How do you know?
2. Did most people in Babylonia make money in cities or in the country? How do you know?
Quotation Reflection
Directions: Respond to the question below in your world history notebook.
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind” Gandhi
1.
Do you agree with the quotation above? Why or why not?
Mesopotamia Review
Directions: Using your homework article, respond to the questions below
1.
2.
Describe the social and economic life in Babylonia. Use evidence from the documents in your response.
Describe the religious life in Babylonia. Use evidence from the documents in your response.
The economic elements of a society/civilization often concern the
systems of trade/exchange at work within that society/civilization.
How does a society/civilization in question get its resources or
Economic
accumulate wealth? How does this society/civilization then trade
these resources for other resources, or use the wealth it gains?
The social elements of a society/civilization often concern the ways
in which the people of that society/civilization interact with each
other. Do social classes exist within the society/civilization in
Social
question? What are the expectations for family units? What are the
expectations for males and females? How do the people of different
races or ethnicities within the society/civilization in question relate?
Reflection/Exit Ticket
Directions: Carefully read and respond to the following prompt in a complete, college-ready fashion.
1. Based on the article below, how would you describe the interactions between human beings and their
environment in Mesopotamia?
Interaction between humans and the environment
The interaction between human beings and their
surroundings are crucial to the development of
societies/civilizations. How do the geography
(mountains, rivers, grasslands, etc.) or surroundings of a
certain area affect the story of a society/civilization?
How do certain societies/civilizations settle in certain
environments? How does the surrounding environment
give rise to things like disease that affect the populations
of a society/civilization in question?
"Mesopotamia" is a Greek word meaning, "Land between the Rivers". The region is a vast, dry plain through which
two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, flow. These rivers rise in mountain ranges to the north before flowing
through Mesopotamia to the sea. As they approach the sea, the land becomes marshy, with lagoons, mud flats, and
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
reed banks. Today, the rivers unite before they empty into the Persian Gulf, but in ancient times the sea came much
further inland, and they flowed into it as two separate streams.
The land is too dry to grow many crops on. As a result, much of it has been - and is still - home to herders of sheep
and goat. These nomads move from the river pastures in the summer to the desert fringes in the winter, which get
some rain at this time of year. At various times they have had a large impact on Mesopotamian history.
Near the rivers themselves, the soil is extremely fertile. It is made up of rich mud brought down by the rivers from the
mountains, and deposited over a wide area during the spring floods. When watered by means of irrigation channels,
it makes some of the best farmland in the world.
The marshy land near the sea also makes very productive farmland, once it had been drained. Here, the diet is
enriched by the plentiful supply of fish to had from the lagoons and ponds.
It is this geography which gave rise to the earliest civilization in world history. Agriculture is only possible in the dry
climate of Mesopotamia by means of irrigation. With irrigation, however, farming is very productive indeed. A dense
population grew up here along the Tigris and Euphrates and their branches in the centuries after 5000 BC. By 3500
BC, cities had appeared. The surplus food grown in this fertile landscape enabled the farming societies to feed a
class of people who did not need to devote their lives to agriculture. These were the craftsmen, priests, scribes,
administrators, rulers and soldiers who made civilization possible.
You should use the claim-evidence-reasoning format to frame your response, an example of which is given below.
CER Steps
1. Make a claim that responds to the question.
2. Support your claim with evidence from the text.
3. Use reasoning to explain how your evidence supports
your claim.
Looks Like
Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all time.
The third paragraph of the article mentions that Jordan
averaged over 30 points per game, while the sixth
paragraph of the article points to Jordan’s six
championship rings.
Jordan’s incredible statistics, along with his impressive
championship record, puts him in a class unmatched by
any other player in NBA history.