1. Warm-up Questions Notice – Bring your colored pencils today.
Which statement infers that city-states fought each other for farmland?
City-states wanted to send troops to protect against the loss of farms.
Crops had been destroyed by drought.
Every city-state wanted more farmland.
What type of person most likely became the first kings?
Notice – Bring your colored
pencils today.

2. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
Sumerian Achievements
Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Monday –September 13, 2017

3. Alabama Course of Study
Analyze characteristics of early civilizations in respect to technology, division of labor, government, calendar, and writings.
Compare significant features of civilizations that developed in the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He River Valleys.

4. Today’s Learning Targets
I will be able to use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will identify the cultural and technological developments in ancient Sumerian society.
I will analyze the conditions which contributed to the establishment of early civilizations and how those conditions fostered the development of civilization in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley.

5. Today’s Learning Targets
I will identify and categorize the achievements of early Sumerian society and how they impact our present day life through the completion of an advanced organizer.

6. Warm-up Questions
Which statement infers that city-states fought each other for farmland?
City-states wanted to send troops to protect against the loss of farms.
Crops had been destroyed by drought.
Every city-state wanted more farmland.

7. Warm-up Questions
What type of person most likely became the first kings?
Great warriors

8. Elements of Civilization
What are the 5 elements of a civilization?
language
religion
system of writing
government
art & architecture

9. Sumerian Organizer

10. Pictograph
A pictograph was one of the earliest known forms of written communication that utilized a picture representing an object.

11. Sumerian Achievements
The Invention of Writing
Pictographs

12. Sumerian Achievements
Advances and Inventions
Cuneiform

13. Sumerian Achievements
Technical Advances

14. Sumerian Achievements
Math and Science

15. Sumerian Achievements
The Arts of Sumer
Architecture

16. Sumerian Achievements
The Arts of Sumer
Art

17. Sumerian Achievements
The Arts of Sumer
Epic Poem

18. Key Terms Review More than needed. Human-made waterways. surplus
Canals
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.

19. Key Terms Review A city and its surrounding countryside.
city-state
The worship of many gods.
polytheism

20. Key Terms Review A writer hired to keep track of business records
scribe
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Silt
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.

21. Key Terms Review
Land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
empire
a long poem that tells the story of heroes.
epic

22. Key Terms Review A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle.
chariot
The world’s first system of writing.
cuneiform

23. Questions