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ziggurat

ziggurat. A Sumerian (Mesopotamian) temple built atop a massive stepped tower to their gods and goddesses. EXAMPLE CCD CHART FOR ZIGGURAT. Learning Target: Students can analyze the influence of geography on early river valley civilizations. Culture: the way of life a people follow

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  1. ziggurat A Sumerian (Mesopotamian) temple built atop a massive stepped tower to their gods and goddesses.

  2. EXAMPLE CCD CHART FOR ZIGGURAT

  3. Learning Target: Students can analyze the influence of geography on early river valley civilizations.

  4. Culture: the way of life a people follow Cultural Pattern: the culture of a people is determined by how they respond to various factors that make up a cultural pattern. The factors include: environment, political, economic, religious, social structure, intellectual & technology, and artistic activity (e-persia) Civilization: a complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion, and art As we study civilizations this year we will use this E+PERSIA format to learn about them.

  5. Characteristics of a Civilization • rise of cities • growth of government • Religion • social structure • Writing • artistic activity

  6. If we were looking at the United States it would look similar to this: • rise of cities – Boston, New York • growth of government – Constitution and States • Religion – Christianity • social structure – citizens, non-citizens, military personnel, and government workers • Writing – Alphabet A-Z • artistic activity – Jazz Music

  7. Mesopotamia • Fertile Crescent • Sumer & Ur • City-State: city and all its surrounding lands that function as an independent political unit • Sumerian Kings

  8. Standard of Ur

  9. Building an Empire • Political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler • Sargon of Akkad

  10. Hammurabi • Rule • Law Code of Hammurabi

  11. Complex Society • Specialization of Trade • Social Classes • Patriarchal Society • Women’s Roles

  12. Cuneiform • form of writing developed in Mesopotamia • made by using a stylus on a clay tablet

  13. Ziggurat • literally “mountain of god” • man-made mountain with a small stepped temple on top • Tower of Babel was a ziggurat

  14. E+PERSIA - MESOPOTAMIA • Pages 37-44

  15. Photos from Cairo, Egypt

  16. Egypt: Gift of the Nile • Geography • Early Egyptian States • Unification

  17. Complex Society • Social Classes • Patriarchal Society • Early Writing

  18. POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION • Ra • Anubis • Thoth • Osiris • Isis • Horus

  19. E+PERSIA - EGYPT • Pages 45-53

  20. MAP MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT!

  21. RECALL TRIVIA: • What is the difference between a ziggurat and a pyramid?

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