1. Mesopotamia
Innovations

2. Wednesday September28, 2016 B-Day Work on something silently.
Homeroom
Wednesday September28, 2016 B-Day Work on something silently.

3. Tuesday and Wednesday September 27 and 28, 2016
Homework: Review Materials – Test Day – A 10/4 and B 10/5
Warm-Up:
1. Copy homework into agenda
2. Complete a review on school net on EQ#2 – use your materials to help you.
Social Studies 6 Unit 2 Mesopotamia EQ 2 Review Passcode: VE4DA3BE2
Social Studies 6 Unit 2 Mesopotamia EQ2 Vocabulary Review Passcode: MA5KE5MA5

4. Carolina Renaissance Festival
Field Trip
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
Carolina Renaissance Festival

5. AE Monday, Tuesday, Thursday – Genius Hour Wednesday – Study Hall
Friday – Silent Reading

6. How did technology and culture influence future civilizations?
EQ#3
How did technology and culture influence future civilizations?

7. Epic – long poems that tell stories of heroes
Vocabulary
Epic – long poems that tell stories of heroes
Architecture – the science of building
Hammurabi’s Code – a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life; the earliest known written collection of laws
Alphabet – a set of letters that can be combined to form words.

8. Innovations
Early Mesopotamians developed a number of innovations which greatly improved the lives of the people, particularly in the area of agriculture. 1. Calendar, which helped them predict floods. 2. Cuneiform Alphabet, one of the first written languages, made it easier to communicate and keep detailed records. 3. The Epic of Gilgamesh was the first recorded story. It deals with many of the universal themes and ideas still found in literature today. 4. Wheel and the plow made farming easier.

9. Hammurabi’s Code of Laws
Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who consolidated and annotated the laws into a single code. The code laid out specific rules of conduct and the punishments for breaking them.

10. Hammurabi’s Code Reading Text

11. 1. Why did Hammurabi have his laws engraved in stone and placed in a public place?
2. Imagine that Hammurabi live in modern society. Where might he post his laws so that everyone would see them?
3. Why do we know more about Hammurabi’s Code than other early forms of law?

12. Hammurabi’s Laws: Fair or Cruel?
Define Fair
Define Cruel

13. Hammurabi’s Laws: Fair or Cruel?1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4.