1. Warm-up Questions Notice – Bring your colored pencils today.
What is the most accurate sequence of events describing the development of Mesopotamia?
Job specialization, planting of crops, people made laws
Population grew, planting of crops, building of canals
Division of labor, villages and cities formed, laws passed
What was the first known epic?
Notice – Bring your colored
pencils today.

2. Ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Achievements Two Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Wednesday – Sept. 13, 2017

3. Alabama Course of Study
Analyze characteristics of early civilizations in respect to technology, division of labor, government, calendar, and writings.
Comparing significant features of civilizations that developed in the Tigris-Euphrates valleys.
Identifying on a map locations of cultural hearths of early civilizations.

4. 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 identify the geographical characteristics needed for a civilization to develop.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.

5. Warm-up Questions
What is the most accurate sequence of events describing the development of Mesopotamia?
Job specialization, planting of crops, people made laws
Population grew, planting of crops, building of canals
Division of labor, villages and cities formed, laws passed

6. Warm-up Questions
What was the first known epic?
The Epic of Gilgamesh

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

8. Key Terms Review A city and its surrounding countryside.
city-state
The worship of many gods.
polytheism

9. Key Terms Review A writer hired to keep track of business records
scribe
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Silt
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.

10. Key Terms Review
Land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
empire
a long poem that tells the story of heroes.
epic

11. Key Terms Review A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle.
chariot
The world’s first system of writing.
cuneiform

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13. 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 identify the geographical characteristics needed for a civilization to develop.
I can outline Sumerian achievements.