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Mesopotamia
Warm Up
How do rules promote integrity?
SAT/ACT Word of the Day:
Integrity
(n) decency, honesty, wholeness
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tutoring today until 4
Possible quiz tomorrow on
things learned this week
3. Notebook check (raise them
in the air!)
4. Divider categories
1. Warm Ups
2. Worksheets
3. Homework
4. Quizzes
5. Tests
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2.
Quote Analysis
“An eye for an eye makes
the whole world blind.”
Changes in Civilizations
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Early civilizations relied on the
environment & began to trade for
things they did not have
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As people traded, they began to
share ideas
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Cultural Diffusion: Sharing &
adopting new ideas, skills, &
beliefs.
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As civilizations continued to grow,
they began to compete with each
other for resources, often leading
to warfare
The Fertile Crescent, Video
Due to the nutrient rich soil, many
civilizations emerged
 Fertile soil = good for farming!!
 Civilization is dependent on
geography
Mesopotamia means:
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Land between the rivers
Two major rivers
 Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Sumerian Civilization
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Settled in Sumer
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Cities developed around
3,000 BCE
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Used mud bricks (example
of how geography influence
society)
City-states developed
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Small cities with a
government
Religion and Government
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Religion was the center of life
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Polytheism: Belief in many
gods
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Usually controlled nature,
protected each city-state, &
were like humans
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Priests initially governed citystates & enjoyed high status
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Successful war chiefs
became kings & formed
dynasties
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Dynasty: rulers from the
same family
Intellectual and Technology
O http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?
Ntt=mesopotamia
O See if you can fill out the intellectual and
technological advances for
Sumer/Mespotamia
SPRITE for Sumer
Directions:
1. You will have 20 minutes to complete this
assignment
2. Read the excerpt and fill in the
corresponding section on your worksheet
Warm Up
O Take out a sheet of paper and pencil for quiz
O Study notes until class starts
Answer the following in complete sentences:
Name_________________
Date__________________
1. Name 2 ways life changed from the Paleolithic
to Neolithic Revolutions:
2. In thinking about the governments we learned
this week, choose one that was your favorite
and choose one that was your least favorite.
Justify your answers for both choices.
3. How did geography impact the development of
civilization? Provide at least two examples:
Warm Up
Start on your Unit 1 Tracker Reflections
Math & Sciences
• Number system based on 60
• Used geometry to build cities
& irrigation systems
• Invented wheel & plow
• Basic surgery
Arts
• Ramps, arches, & Columns
• Cylinder seals
Sumerian
Culture
Trade & Society
• Traded with other societies
• Traders became wealthy
• Class systems
Writing
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First writing system
Cuneiform
Used stylus on clay tablets
Epic of Gilgamesh
Decline of Sumer = Rise of Babylonia
 Sumer declined and neighboring tribes fought
for control.
 The Amorites (a tribe) won and in 1792 BC, King
Hammurabi took the throne at Babylon.
 He united Mesopotamia and built the Babylonian
Empire.
Mesopotamian Empires
Sumer
Babylonians
• Created Cuneiform –
written language
• Notable Ruler = Hammurabi
• Invented the wheel,
• Taxed & traded
Metal plow, cities,
• Hammurabi’s Code:
Set of written laws &
punishments
government, temples,
number system
• Adapted ways of
previous empires
Codifying Law
Code of Hammurabi
#196 – If a man put out the eye of
another man, his eye shall be put out.
#202- If any one strike the body of a
man higher in rank than he, he shall
receive sixty blows with an ox-whip
in public
Some Babylonian Laws
1. If anyone is committing a robbery and is
caught, then he shall be put to death.
2.
If the slave of a freed man strike the body
of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.
3. If a man out the eye of another man, his
eye shall be put out.
CODIFY
Codify means to write down laws
and display them for everyone to see
Why is codifying laws
important?
Is it necessary to right the laws down?
Discussion
1. Based on Hammurabi’s actual laws what
kind of ruler do you think he was?
2. What kind of society was it?
3. Was everyone equal?
4. Let’s see
Court Room Activity
(See handout)
Code of Hammurabi
Worksheet
Writing Prompt