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Chapter 3: Mesopotamia
pg. 51-83
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During the next unit, we will be exploring one of the world’s most ancient civilizations, Mesopotamia. You will
be working on this INB inside class and at home. Remember INBs count toward your grade.
Vocabulary
Directions: Define the following vocabulary words. Use your S.S. glossary for assistance. Sketch a picture of
each word to help you remember the meanings. Write definitions and pictures on the paper attached.
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Fertile Crescent
Canals
Rural
Gilgamesh
Polytheism
Cuneiform
Epics
Monarch
Nebuchadnezzar
10. Silt
11. Surplus
12. Urban
13. Sargon
14. Priests
15. Pictographs
16. Architecture
17. Hammurabi’s Code
18. Alphabet
Questions
Projects
Directions: Answer the following short
answer questions. Use complete sentences,
with good spelling, capitals, and punctuation.
Answers should be at least 3-5 sentences
long. Write responses on binder and staple to
the INB. Check them off as you complete
them.
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19. Irrigation
20. Division of labor
21. City-State
22. Empire
23. Social hierarchy
24. Scribe
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COMPLETED
Directions: You will choose
of the
following projects to complete. I will choose
____of the projects for you to complete. You
may always do extra projects for extra credit.
Complete your projects on binder paper and
attach to the INB. Label each project clearly.
Must Do
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Free Choice
Projects
1. Attach the worksheets and quizzes.
2. Keep track of the new ideas and innovations that the Mesopotamians developed and the impact those new
ideas had on their world. Do any of them still have an impact on us today?
3. Complete the activities found on pages 54 and 55.
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4. Observe the map of the Fertile Crescent found on page 57. Make a poster: Sketch a diagram that depicts the
causes of settlement in the Fertile Crescent and the results of this settlement.
5. Sketch a small farming community in its early stages. Be sure to remember to have a key to identify: houses,
water, and other features. Be sure to show the irrigation system to your community. Where would you store
your food surplus?
6. Draw a chart with 4 columns and 4 rows. Label the columns: fresh water, flat plain, good soil, and
transportation. Label the rows: river valley, seacoast, jungle, and desert. Complete the chart by rating
whether each location provides each criterion for settlement and farming.
7. Create and complete a 3 column graphic organizer chart. Label the columns: Government, Religion, Society.
Title the chart: The Rise of Sumer.
8. Write a news report or a commercial, from Sumer, reporting what happened when an innovation was
introduced into this society. Get reactions from all social levels. (~ 200 words)
9. Copy your group’s “Code of Laws”, with their consequences.
10. Make a TT chart comparing our current laws and punishments with Hammurabi’s.
11. You are a philosopher who believes in the Phoenician alphabet or Lydian coined money. Write a speech
(~200 words) convincing the people why they should use either of these innovations.
12. Create your own ‘Code’ of writing. Create a ‘Key.’ Write a simple sentence using your ‘Code.’
13. Draw the social levels of Mesopotamia onto a 3-step pyramid-style drawing. Delineate each step as the class
levels. Draw and name the type of jobs/people who belonged in each of the 3 social class levels.
14. Create a half-page dialogue between Gilgamesh and Enkidu (pages 72-73) that takes place just before the
battle and describes the two characters planning their attack.
15. Create a book jacket for a book titled: Invasions of Mesopotamia. The book jacket should have the title and a
picture/illustration on the front cover, a brief summary of the book’s contents on the inside flaps, author and
publisher on the spine, and comments about the book’s influence on the back cover.
16. You are a Phoenician trader and ship owner exporting and selling/trading the goods and products to other
nations. Create a poster advertising your wares. Or create a dialogue or speech ‘hawking’ your wares. Be
sure to list the items
17. 8 Characteristics of a Civilization. 1) Stable Food Supply; 2) Highly Developed Culture; 3) Architecture; 4)
Art, Music, Law, Religion; 5) System of Government; 6) Writing; 7) Specialization of Labor; and 8) Social
Levels. Use 1 sheet of your INB, front and back, to do this assignment. Divide the front and back of the sheet
into 4’s. Label each section with the 8 Characteristics of a Civilization. Illustrate/Collage and name what
things define these characteristics today.
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