Mesopotamia

Assyrian First Person Narrative

**//9 Question Mesopotamia Scavenger Hunt//** Answer the following questions about Mesopotamia, also known as **"The Land Between Two Rivers"**. You may post your answers in Thinkquest, print out your answers after typing in Word, make a PowerPoint or Moviemaker. Have fun learning!

1. Why were river valleys the first place for complex societies (civilizations) to develop? What are the advantages of residing in a river valley? 2. Explain how farmers were able to control seasonal floods and bring water to their fields. 3. The ancient Sumerians moved from pictographs to cuneiform (logograph) - what is [|cuneiform]? What is a rebus? Why was it so important to develop a writing system? Write like a Babylonian here! 4. Learn at least 3 inventions the Sumerians founded and 3 mathematical ideas. How do we use these inventions today? 5. Read the story of Gilgamesh, one of the first recorded stories in world history. What is your favorite part of the story and why? 6. What is a ziggurat and what was its function? If you had to construct a miniature model of a ziggurat, what would you use and why? 7. Who was this Hammurabi guy? What kind of leader was he? Why was his Code so important? Why do you think his reign was called "The Golden Age of Babylon"? And why did he need 282 laws? 8. Who developed a way to use iron weapons (smelt that metal!) within their armies? What culture learned (stole) this technique and made weapons even better? (Hint: It's the Assyrians!) The Assyrians were fearsome warriors; what combination of techniques did they use to dominate other cultures? 9. One of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is in Babylon. What is it? Why was it constructed?

//**Writing Activities/Drama** // Primogeniture- fair or not? Rules versus Rules with Consequences My Code of Law Hanging Gardens of Babylon Reader's Theater

<span style="color: #196119; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, oh my!** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Please don't be upset, **Akkadians** and **Chaldeans**, it just wouldn't be as funny if we included you in the quote) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chronological timeline of people of Mesopotamia: 1. **Sumerians** 2. **Akkadians** 3. **Babylonians** 4. **Assyrians** 5. **Neo-Babylonians (Chaldeans)** = **SABAC**

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<span style="color: #5d0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Mesopotamia Student Answers- Individual Links for each student** **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia Videos ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">media type="file" key="Ancient Mesopotamia.mp4" width="300" height="300" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia (9:58 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ancient Mesopotamia (9:35 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hanging Gardens Video (9 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hanging Gardens of Babylon (8:59 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assyrians and Hammurabi (1:18 min) After watching this video, what did the Assyrians have as an advantage that helped them conquer the Babylonians? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Assyrian Warriors (9:49 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ancient Sumeria (5:47 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How Writing Came to Be (2:11 min) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cuneiform (3:00 min)

<span style="color: #196119; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Mesopotamia Links** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ancient Mesopotamia <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Information on Mesopotamia from the British Museum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamian Timeline <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia for Kids <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia KidsKonnect <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mesopotamia History 101 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sumerian Inventions <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Inventions <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hanging Gardens of Babylon <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hanging Gardens of Babylon2 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hammurabi's Code of Laws <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Same Hammurabi Code, Different Site <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sumeria HistoryWiz <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gilgamesh and Gilgamesh in the cedar forest