1. Agenda 1.Daily 10 2.Announcements 3.Vocabulary 4.Mesopotamia Notes 5.Hammurabi Activity

2.  Mesopotamia  Egypt River Valley Civilizations

3. Name four reasons why living by rivers would be beneficial

4. The Sumerians

5. We are going to focus on the city of Ur in Sumer Sumer was one of the first regions to develop

6.  Does anyone know the name of the two rivers that flow through this area?  Tigris  Euphrates  Called “The Fertile Crescent”  Why? Mesopotamia aka: “land between the rivers”

7. Good and Bad Problems GOOD  Good soil from the River BAD  Unpredictable flooding  No natural barriers  Limited natural resources How will they grow as a civilization?

8.  What kinds?  Metalworkers  Merchants  Soldiers  Potters  Artists  Who was at the top of the social class?  Kings & Priests Specialized Workers

9.  If you lived in Mesopotamia, what type of worker do you think you would be?

10.  Irrigation ditches – water for crops  Walls – surrounded the cities  The wheel and the sail Technology

11.  Ur – one of the earliest cities in Sumer  Busy city!  Cultural Diffusion –when a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another Advanced Cities

12. Illustrate cultural diffusion

13.  Cuneiform – symbols pressed into clay tablets  Written history begins! Record Keeping

14. Cuneiform

15. Try and draw two cuneiform symbols:

16.  Religion  Polytheism- the belief in more than one god  Ziggurats –  City Hall in middle of city  Temple Institutions

17. Ziggurats

18. To keep the gods happy – offered sacrifices of animals, food, and wine Priests required food taxes to sacrifice

19. Draw a ziggurat

20.  Government  Multiple cities in Mesopotamia  City state – A city has an independent government  Who do you think controlled the governments in Sumer?  Priests – top of social class Institutions

21. Hammurabi  Have you heard of Babylon?  Famous city in Mesopotamia that became an empire  Hammurabi – the leader at its greatest time

22.  Hammurabi’s Code – single set of laws and rules  EXTREMELY STRICT  Engraved in stone and copies were placed all over his empire

23. Let’s Read Hammurabi’s Code