1. Sumer and Babylon
Aim: How did the main aspects of civilization begin in mesopotamia?
Do Now: what are the rivers of mesopotamia?

2. Civilization Surplus (extra) crops
Resulted in the growth of towns and cities

3. Sumer Southern Mesopotamia About a dozen small cities
Created first wheeled vehicles

4. Cuneiform Cuneiform – system of writing invented in Sumer
Brought cities together
First created to record farm surpluses
Used sharp reeds to scratch onto clay tablets

5. Cuneiform Oldest tablets – symbols are like pictographs
Gradually simplify symbols so can write faster
Over 500 signs

6. School in Sumer Most could not write
Honor to go to school and be a scribe
Possible for girls to be scribes

7. City-States of Sumer
City-state – a self-governing city that also governs surrounding villages
Life centered around the city-states

8. City-States of Sumer Went to war to control the river
Walls built to protect against attack

9. Open Ziggurat of Ur Worksheet

10. Religion Ziggurat – large building with a temple at its peak
Center of city
STEPPED PYRAMID
Polytheism

11. Hammurabi’s Code
Aim: how did Hammurabi’s code show the importance of government?
Do now: why are laws so important?
Why do we need laws?

12. Hammurabi’s Code
Aim: how did Hammurabi’s code show the importance of government?
Do now: take out hammurabi’s code worksheet

13. Babylon
Empire of Babylonia
Hammurabi – king of Babylon

14. Hammurabi’s Code
Code of law – a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government
One of world’s oldest set of laws
Slavery existed
Not everyone was equal
Written in cuneiform

15. Hammurabi’s Code
If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze tool and causes that man’s death… they shall cut off his hand.
If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make the construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes death, that builder shall be put to death.
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
If a son strikes his father, they shall cut off his hand.
Anyone who steals a child shall be put to death.
Convicted thieves shall have their hands cut off.
If a man destroys the eye of a slave, he shall pay one-half the slave’s value.

16. Homework Answer the Aim in a paragraph
Can this type of strict laws be good for society today? Why or why not?
Hammurabi’s Code worksheet