Warm-up Questions

1. Warm-up Questions • Which statement infers that city-states fought each other for farmland? • City-states wanted to send troops to protect against the loss of farms. • Crops had been destroyed by drought. • Every city-state wanted more farmland. • What type of person most likely became the first kings? • Notice – Bring your colored pencils today.

2. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent Sumerian Achievements Ancient Civilizations Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History Monday –September 13, 2017

3. Alabama Course of Study • Analyze characteristics of early civilizations in respect to technology, division of labor, government, calendar, and writings. • Compare significant features of civilizations that developed in the Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang He River Valleys.

4. Today’s Learning Targets • I will be able to use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately. • I will identify the cultural and technological developments in ancient Sumerian society. • I will analyze the conditions which contributed to the establishment of early civilizations and how those conditions fostered the development of civilization in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley.

5. Today’s Learning Targets • I will identify and categorize the achievements of early Sumerian society and how they impact our present day life through the completion of an advanced organizer.

6. Warm-up Questions • Which statement infers that city-states fought each other for farmland? • City-states wanted to send troops to protect against the loss of farms. • Crops had been destroyed by drought. • Every city-state wanted more farmland.

7. Warm-up Questions • What type of person most likely became the first kings? • Great warriors

8. Elements of Civilization • What are the 5 elements of a civilization? • language • religion • system of writing • government • art & architecture

9. Sumerian Organizer

10. Pictograph A pictograph was one of the earliest known forms of written communication that utilized a picture representing an object.

11. Sumerian Achievements • The Invention of Writing • Pictographs

12. Sumerian Achievements • Advances and Inventions • Cuneiform

13. Sumerian Achievements • Technical Advances

14. Sumerian Achievements • Math and Science

15. Sumerian Achievements • The Arts of Sumer • Architecture

16. Sumerian Achievements • The Arts of Sumer • Art

17. Sumerian Achievements • The Arts of Sumer • Epic Poem

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

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

20. 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.

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

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

23. Questions