1. Warm-up Questions
Which statement implies that city-states fought each other for farmland?
City-states had plenty of food supplies.
Crops had been destroyed by drought.
Every city-state wanted more farmland to grow food.
What type of person most likely became the first kings?

2. Mesopotamia Sumerian Achievements Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Monday – September 10, 2018

3. Today’s Learning Targets
I will use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.

4. Warm-up Questions
Which statement implies that city-states fought each other for farmland?
City-states had plenty of food supplies.
Crops had been destroyed by drought.
Every city-state wanted more farmland to grow food

5. Warm-up Questions
What type of person most likely became the first kings?
war heroes

6. The Invention of Writing
Sumerians invented cuneiform. Scribes used a system of writing with styluses to make wedge shaped marks in clay tablets.

7. Epic of Gilgamesh
This is the first known written epic. It is the story of a great Sumerian King.
Greeks wrote Hercules based upon this epic.

8. Advances & Inventions Technical Advances: Invented the wheel
Potter’s Wheel
Plow
Clock using falling water
Learned to use bronze

9. Advances & Inventions Math & Sciences: Math system based upon 60
360 degree circle
12 month year
Medical healing drugs

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

11. Key Terms Review A way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
When each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
Division of labor
I can use the academic
vocabulary of this region and
time appropriately.

12. Key Terms Review A large arc of rich, or fertile farmland
Fertile Crescent
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Silt

13. Key Terms Review
The countryside
rural
City areas
urban

14. Key Terms Review An independent city and its surrounding countryside
City-state
a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler
empire

15. Key Terms Review The worship of many gods
polytheism
People who perform religious ceremonies
priests

16. Key Terms Review The division of a society by rank or class
social hierarchy

17. Key Terms Review The world’s first known system of writing
cuneiform
A person who writes
scribe

18. Key Terms Review
A long poem that tells about great heroes and their deeds
epics
The science of building
architecture

19. Key Terms Review A picture symbol A pyramid shaped temple tower
pictographs
A pyramid shaped temple tower
ziggurat

20. Map of Mesopotamia

21. Survey Why did scribes have power and influence in Sumerian society?
People who could read and write were important.
What was the first known epic?
The Epic of Gilgamesh

22. Survey Ruler of the first known empire…
Sargon
What are pictures that are used as symbols called?
pictographs

23. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I can outline Sumerian achievements.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.