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Chapter 4 – Mesopotamia
Lesson 1 - The Sumerians (pages
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Guiding Question?
The First
Civilizations in
Mesopotamia __________________________________________________________
Notes:
Two Rivers
Early Valley
Dwellers
Taming the
Rivers
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Guiding Question:
Sumer’s
Civilization
City-States Arise
Gods, Priests,
and Kings
Social Groups
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Notes:
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Farmers and
Traders
Guiding Question:
Sumerian
Contributions
Writing
Technology and
Mathematics
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Notes:
DIRECTIONS
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After Reading Questions
a) Rewrite the question in your answer
b) Write your answers in complete sentences
c) Use correction punctuation and capitalization
1. How did floods sometimes help farmers?
2. Why do you think the Sumerians built cities with walls around them?
3. Why did the Sumerians invent a writing system?
Vocab
silt
irrigation
surplus
city-state
polytheism
ziggurat
cuneiform
scribe
epic
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