1. Finish through Activity #8 in your booklet
Homework 09/6/2017
Study Notes minutes
Finish through Activity #8 in your booklet
Quiz Corrections due by Monday, Spetmeber 11th
Green Form due back signed by Friday

2. 6-1.3: Compare the river valley civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia),
the Nile (Egypt), the Indus (India), and the Huang He (China), including the evolution of written language, government, trade systems, architecture, and forms of social order.

4. CUNEIFORM
The People of Mesopotamia needed a way to keep records for business and other events
Their written language consisted of hundreds of wedge shaped marks

5. Cuneiform
The writing was done on a wet clay tablet using a sharp-ended piece of reed called a stylus
Usually only wealthy boys learned to write, they were called SCRIBES
                          

6. Hammurabi’s Code
One of the things that having a written language allowed them to do was write down their laws.
The world’s first written law code was HAMMURABI’S CODE

7. Hammurabi’s Code
HAMMURABI was a king of Babylon. He combined all the laws in his lands and made one law code for everyone