1. Warm-Up September 30,2013 Where do you live? What are some challenges or problems in your life. What are some of your achievements?

2. Students will be able to: Compare and contrast the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures. Explore how empires formed in Mesopotamia.

3. Two Empires of MESOPOTAMIA

4. Materials for Today’s Lesson

5. RULES FOR TODAY’S LESSON RULES FOR TODAY’S LESSON Raise your hands before speaking or leaving your seat Respect your classmates and Mrs. Roberts Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.

6. The Assyrian and the Babylonian’s cultures.

7. Where They Lived Assyrians North of Babylon on open land. Babylonians Between the Tigris and Euphrates, north of Sumer

8. Assyrians One of the most important Mesopotamia empires.. Its capital was Nineveh. Babylonians One of the most important Mesopotamia empires. The city of Babylon was the center of the empire.

9. Their Challenges or Problems Assyrians Continually open to invasion Babylonians Destroyed by the Assyrians

10. Their Lasting Achievements Assyrians They developed sophisticated weapons and conquered many lands. Babylonians Babylon became a center of learning; strides were made in astronomy.

11. Civilization Sumerians

12. Where did the Sumerians live… Between the Tigris and Euphrates, north od the Persian Gulf

13. Their challenges or problems (Sumerians) Destructive floods Constant warfare

14. Their lasting achievements (Sumerians) They developed a system of writing

15. What would life be like without written language?

16. Students will be able to… Imagine a world with no writing systems Share knowledge about the creation of writing systems.

18. Rules for Today’s Lesson Raise your hands before speaking or leaving your seat Respect your classmates and Mrs. Roberts Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself. No yelling out answers

19. LOL = Laughing Out Loud LOL = Lots Of Love BRB = Be Right Back BRB = Bath Room Break

20. TA great minds think alike GTSY glad to see you H&K hug and kiss HAGN have a good night HAG1 have a good one HHIS hanging head in shame IC I see IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean IGP I gotta pee IMO in my opinion IMHO in my humble opinion IRL in real life IWALY I will always love you JK just kidding JMO just my opinion

21. Materials for Today’s Lesson

22. Reading from the book about cuneiform.

23. What is cuneiform?

24. What ancient civilization invented cuneiform? List five things you think the ancient people wrote down?

25. Civilization Chaldeans

26. Where did they live… (Chaldeans) King ruled Mesopotamia from Babylon

27. There challenges and problems… Overthrown by fierce Assyrians

28. Their lasting achievements (Chaldeans) They gained control of the Assyrian empire and rebuilt Babylon.