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9-16-13 Bellwork
Do Now...
Write a brief letter to Mom & Dad describing
your life as a Neolithic teenager telling them
about your culture.
5 minutes.....at LEVEL 0
Flashback Tuesday 9-17-13
TURN IN TEST ANALYSIS!!!
Explain the theme of place.
Describe the human characteristics of SWMS.
Describe the physical characteristics of SWms.
Unit 3
River Civilizations
I can Statements
1.I can interpret a timeline.
2.I can explain how history is a series of connected events.
3.I can compare primary and secondary sources.
4.I can locate the Fertile Crescent.
5.I can analyze the relationship between geography and the development of citystates.
6.I can assess why the first civilizations began in the Fertile Crescent.
7.I can interpret the Sumeriansʼ contributions to society.
8.I can analyze the effect of empires in the Fertile Crescent.
9.I can justify the importance of Hammurabiʼs Code.
The Meaning of History
History is a record of past events.
The story of people and what happened to
them.
Answer this - Why do we study history?
We Study History because....
People before us have learned many lessons
Imagine if we knew nothing about people from
our past.
Imagine having to figure out how to make fire or
how to farm.
History lives in our culture
Historians study History by
Asking themselves five W’s
1. What happened?
2. When did it happen?
3. Where did it happen?
4. Who was involved?
5. Why did it happen?
Where do Historians find the
answers?
Primary Sources - first-hand, or eyewitness,
accounts of the event.
Secondary sources - second-hand records of
what happened.
Write down 2 examples of primary sources and
2 examples of secondary sources.
Timelines
Timelines are an easy way to make sense of
the flow of events and dates.
It’s a simple way to show how dates and events
related and are connected to each other.
Mrs. Tyler’s Timeline
BORN
1979
Moved
to
KY
1988
Graduated
HS
1997
Graduated
EKU
2004
Birth of
Jack
2006
Birth of
Sam
2009
Moved to
BG
2012
Make a Timeline of your life.
Bellwork 9-18-13
Get out your HOMEWORK, but DON’T turn
it in!!
Ones describe and give an example of a primary
and secondary source.
Twos describe and give an example of a
secondary source.
What is History
While you read, let’s get active, fill in the blanks.
Use the reading guide to record what is important
After you finish, compare your notes to last night
homework. Grade yourself to see what you already
knew.
After you read, think about it, write about it.
You will write two paragraphs. One summary and
one explaining your thoughts about history. Read
the DIRECTIONS!!!
Throwback Thursday 9-19-13
What theme is described below?
Kentucky is the home to 120 counties, and the
Kentucky Derby, which annually gains
worldwide attention. It is not the biggest state in
the US, but it is not the smallest, either. Nearly
4.5 million people live in Kentucky, who
experience tit s moderate, relatively humid
climate and abundant rainfall.
Bellwork 9-20-13
What differences exist between a historian and a
history teacher?
Why is it significant for us to have knowledge
about the past?
What you need today on your desk
Today’s Bellwork
Agenda
Pencil
Highlighter or light colored marker
Yesterday's quiz
5th - Timeline handout
What you need today on your desk
Homework to check
Agenda
Piece of paper
Pencil
Timeline handout/notes from Friday.
9-23-13 Bellwork
1. DO NOT TURN Homework in. Set on your
desk!!!
2. Draw a timeline.
3. Mark these BC time increments: 5000, 4000,
3000, 2000, 1000, 0, 1000AD correctly
4. Label these dates: 2500BC, 3100BC, 50BC,
4900BC, 1700BC.
What you need today on your desk
Homework to check
Agenda
Piece of paper
Pencil
Timeline handout/notes from Friday.
Today - Primary vs. Secondary
1. Read Working with Primary Sources, pg
736-737
2. Practice interpreting primary sources, pg 731.
3. Answer the 7 questions on your own paper.
4. Turn over you Reading a Timeline, complete the
primary sources identification.
Flashback Tuesday 9-24-13
Write a conversation between a paleolithic and
neolithic kids telling the other about their new
technology discoveries.
What you need today on your desk
Agenda
Pencil
Neolithic Characteristics
domesticated animals used for work
farming
specialized jobs
larger populations
permanent settlements
etc.
All of these
things
together led
to the
emergence
of
civilizations
Civilization
complex societies with cities, organized governments,
art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system
For example, Mesopotamia
First Civilizations
4 sheets of paper
Stack them so that each sheet is
about one inch or so higher than
the sheet behind it.
Fold all sheets down so that
more “tabs” are created.
Staple along fold.
First Civilizations
“First Civilizations”
Use this entire space, so
make it big and bold.
First Civilizations/
River Valleys
City-States
Religion
Sumerian Society
Education &
Technology
Writing/Literature
Sargon vs. Hammurabi
Bellwork 9-25-13
Copy down these definitions on the back
of your foldable
1. Civilizations - complex societies with cities,
organized governments, art, religion, class
divisions, and a writing system
2. Fertile Crescent - curving strip of land that
extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the
Persian Gulf
3. Mesopotamia - the land between the rivers
4. Sumer - region in Southern Mesopotamia
Religions Tab
Monotheistic - belief in one god
Polytheistic - belief in more than one god
Flashback Thursday 9-26-13
1. What is the period in time called when no
writing occurred?
2. What change began the Neolithic Age?
3. What was the greatest benefit to people when
early farmers began to domesticate plants and
animals?
4. Why did people in the Neolithic Period live
together in villages, compared to earlier times?
Flashback Thursday 9-26-13
1. What is the period in time called when no
writing occurred? Pre-history
2. What change began the Neolithic Age? farming
3. What was the greatest benefit to people when
early farmers began to domesticate plants and
animals? stable food supply
4. Why did people in the Neolithic Period live
together in villages, compared to earlier times?
they could grow enough crops to support more
people
Fertile Crescent
Fertile?
Crescent?
Fertile + Crescent =
First Civilizations/River Valleys
Governments formed to make plans &
decisions about matters of common concern
Government Purpose - manage food supplies
and building projects, make laws and assemble
armies to fend off enemies.
With more time, arts and religions developed.
Class Structure - people had different places
in society depending on their work , wealth, and
power
City-States
City-state: independent state made up of a city
& surrounding land & villages with a government
City-states developed because trade and
travel was hard due to physical geography.
Q: What physical geography made it
difficult?
mudflats and desert
Geography of Mesopotamia
City-States
Protecting of city-states was created by
building a wall made of river mud bricks
Why need protection? city-states often went
to war with each other to gain glory & control
more land
Religion
Sumerians were polythestic
Monotheistic - belief in one god
Polytheistic - belief in more than one god
Ziggurats - grand temple, means “mountain of
god” or “hill of heaven” Looked like a tiered
wedding cake. The ziggurat dominated the city
with a shrine of special place of worship that
only prients & priestesses could enter.
Religion
Priests & priestesses held most of the power in
Sumer.
Later, power moved to the kings who earned
their position from being a war hero. The kings
passed their power down through their family.
Religion
I can locate the Fertile Crescent.
Why did first civilizations settle in the
Fertile Crescent?
What reasons did we discuss that caused early
travelers/settlers to settle in certain places?
First Civilizations/River Valleys
arose in river valleys
good farming conditions = easy to feed large
numbers of people
fish and fresh water
easy to travel and trade
Sumerian Society
Sumerian Contributions
I can interpret the Sumerians’ contributions to
society.
Writing & Literature
Writing & Literature
Sumerians developed writing to keep track of
business deals and other events
Cuneiform
Scribes
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic? Gilgamesh?
Epic of Gilgamesh
Thursday, 9/20/12
Sit in your assigned seat.
You need to get out the message that you wrote in
cuneiform yesterday. It is the ONLY thing you need on
your desk.
If you checked out a textbook and are wanting to return it,
DO NOT put it on the shelf; wait for my instruction
regarding this.
If you have yet to finish your foldable/flipchart, it is ok for
today; however, it MUST be finished by Monday. The
guide is on my website, and I’ll also add the portion of the
textbook that you’ll need (I’ll scan and post it so no one has
to keep up with a book over the weekend).
Writing in Cuneiform
Think of a school-related message, something
you want to share with another student or
something interesting about SWMS that you
might tell a new student.
On a sheet of paper, write your message in
cuneiform.
Remember everything we discussed about how
the Sumerians wrote in cuneiform!!
Edubba 101
Today, you are not at school; you are at Spartan
Edubba.
You are going to fulfill the role of a scribe.
Cuneiform was written with a reed and on clay.
Transfer your message to your clay tablet.
You have the amount of time that is on the timer.
Sumerian Contributions
Be thinking about these questions. You do not have to
write anything down, but be prepared to discuss them.
Compare the process of writing in early civilizations
to that of today.
How might you life be different had the Sumerians
not invented writing?
How might our society be different had the Sumerians
not invented writing?
Sumerian Contributions
I can interpret the Sumerians’ contributions to
society.
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were like in Mesopotamia; therefore, they need to
incorporate, at least, the following:
where the high, middle, and low classes lived within the city
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artisan shops
irrigation?
fields for farming (plow?)
1 form of domestication
2 forms of specialization
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Bellringer
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In one of the court cases in which you're the
judge, a builder/contractor has been brought to
trial. One of the houses he built completely
collapsed and injured the occupants of the
house. As the judge, what would your “ruling”
be?
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Suppose you are a judge in our judicial system.
In one of the court cases in which you're the
judge, a builder/contractor has been brought
to trial. One of the houses he built
completely collapsed and injured the occupants
of the house. As the judge, what would your
“ruling” be?
How did your decision (from the bellringer)
differ from how Hammurabi would have
punished the contractor?
Bellringer
Welcome back! Hope you had a wonderful break.
Be thinking about the following question. You do not
have to write anything down; just be prepared to
share your answer with the class.
In modern times, what would be comparable to a
Mesopotamian city-state? To an empire?
Hammurabi’s Code
Cruel or Fair?
Groups of 3
Create a song or poem about Hammurabi’s code.
Either way, it must include at least 6 facts about
Hammurabi’s code, and it must indicate, in some
way, whether you think it was cruel or fair.
Poems = at least 12 lines long
Songs = at least 2 verses and 1 chorus
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