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SS.6.W.2.7 Summarize the important achievements of Mesopotamia civilization.
SS.6.W.2.5 Summarize important achievements of Egyptian civilization.
Essential Question: How did Mesopotamia and Egypt influence future civilizations?
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Image, school
exercise tablet, 22001900 BCE,
Mesopotamia
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Image, The Great
Temple of Abu Simble
in Egypt
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Infographic of the
Ancient Egyptian
social pyramid
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Excerpts from the
Code of Hammurabi,
Mesopotamia, 1754
B.C.E.
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Source 1 – Image of a school exercise tablet, Mesopotamia (2200-1900BCE).Tablets are engraved with
cuneiform writing. School boys would be trained in reading, writing and mathematics.
Source: The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago. Retrieved from:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/as20.pdf
Source 2 – Image, The Great Temple of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, featuring the head of Ramses II
Source retrieved from: https://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/abusimbel/ramses/ramses.html
Source 3 – Infographic depicting the AncientEgyptian social pyramid
Source retrieved from: www.helleogypt.souqhurghada.com
Source 4 – Excerpt from the Code of Hammurabi, Mesopotamia,c. 1754 BCE
If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.
If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina [unit of currency].
If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
If a man knocks out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
If he knocks out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.
If anyone strikes the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
If a free-born man strikes the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.
If a freed man strikes the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money.
If the slave of a freed man strikes the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off.