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Mesopotamian Achievements

Mesopotamian Achievements. Do Now. Take out your Homework and Practice Book and Vocabulary Sheets List some of the advances you have learned about agriculture. How did these advances help farmers?. Agricultural Techniques. Innovations: 1. Irrigation (lead to surpluses)

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Mesopotamian Achievements

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  1. Mesopotamian Achievements

  2. Do Now • Take out your Homework and Practice Book and Vocabulary Sheets • List some of the advances you have learned about agriculture. How did these advances help farmers?

  3. Agricultural Techniques • Innovations: 1. Irrigation (lead to surpluses) 2. Bronze-tipped plows 3. Funnels for seeding 4. Shade planting 5. Almanacs

  4. Irrigation

  5. Bronze-Tipped Plow

  6. Funnels for Seeding

  7. Shade Planting

  8. Almanac

  9. Measurements • Larger farms: farmers and governments wanted to track things • Ikumeans “the field” • Equaled about 37,600 square feet • Used to measure land • Developed standard units of weight and volume • Carefully planned number system based on the number 60 • Measured time: hours, minutes, seconds • 360 day calendar

  10. Activity • Directions: Open to pages 110 and 111 of your textbook. Copy the picture of the ziggurat and surrounding area. Label the 4 points on your drawing. • Builders constructed a ziggurat in layers, each one smaller than the one below it. • At the top of a ziggurat stood a shrine to a god. • Trees and bushes may have covered the ziggurat. • Smaller buildings stood along the outside wall of the ziggurat

  11. Wrap Up • What is the significance of the Ziggurat? What made the architecture significant?

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