Warm Up

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Warm Up

• Journal ½ in complete sentences
• What crime did you bring for homework? Summarize
  your article.
• Does your article discuss the criminals race or
  social class? What gender is the criminal?
• Was the crime solved? If so, how was the
  criminal punished?

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Read Hammurabis Code

• Turn to page 44 in your textbook.
• Read Hammurabis code.
• Think-Pair-Share- What is Hammurabis code like
  as a set of laws? Fair or unfair? Why?

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Compare/Contrast

• Write 3 sentences explaining how the crime your
  article describes would be handled under
  Hammurabis Code.
• Think about these questions
• How would the criminal be punished under American
  laws?
• How do you think the criminal would be punished
  in Mesopotamia (based on the code you read)?
• Is the criminal considered to be in a lower
  social group? If so, how would this change their
  punishment?

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Mesopotamia

• (Take notes on your Graphic Organizer for
  Tigris-Euphrates)

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Geography
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Geography

• Think- Pair-Share
• Why did all of the river valley civilizations
  form around rivers?

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Geography

• The fertile crescent was between the Tigris and
  Euphrates rivers.
• The land was extremely good for growing crops.
• The rivers would flood which would enrich the
  soil.
• The flooding was random, and people could never
  tell how big the floods would be.

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Irrigation

• Irrigation- the people controlled the floods with
  drainage ditches and used them to water their
  crops.

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People of Mesopotamia

• Sumerians founded Mesopotamia.
• Assyria and Akkadians came after.

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City-States

• Mesopotamia had many cities.
• Eridu
• Ur
• Uruk
• These cities had economic and political control
  over the surrounding countryside.

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Sumerian Cities

• Uruk was surrounded by a six mile wall with 30
  foot defense towers.
• Mud was used to make sun-dried bricks. The bricks
  were used to make homes, city buildings and
  ziggurats.
• Some of these buildings are still around today!

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Ziggurat
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Ziggurats

• Temples made with mud brick that had large steps.
• People believed that gods and goddesses owned the
  cities.

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Theocracy

• The government was a theocracy (government ruled
  by divine authority)
• The ziggurats were the political, religious, and
  economic capitals of the cities.

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Government

• The kings power came from the gods.
• The kings had powerful armies and lived in large
  palaces.

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Economy

• Mostly farming, but trade was important too.
• Industry was important.
• Metalwork
• Wool clothes
• Pottery
• They invented the wheel which made trade much
  easier.

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Society

• Nobles- Priests and royals
• Commoners- 90 of population
• Farmers, merchants, artisans
• Slaves- Worked for royals and priests
• Society was patriarchal (dominated by men)

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Society
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Religion

• Polytheistic
• Gods were not kind or reliable. This was
  believed because of famine, hot climate and
  random flooding.

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Babylon

• Hammurabi was Babylonian
• Hammurabis code
• Strict justice system
• 282 laws

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Hammurabis Code

• Upper class criminals were punished less than
  lower class criminals.
• Women had fewer rights than men.
• Most laws focused on marriage and family.
• an eye for an eye

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Writing

• Sumerians invented cuneform writing.
• Used a stylus to carve writing on clay tablets.
• Epic of Gilgamesh- first epic poem!

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Vocabulary

• Empire- Large political unit or state, usually
  under a single leader, that controls many peoples
  or territories.
• Theocracy- Government by divine authority.
• Patriarchal- A society dominated by men.
• Polytheism- belief in many gods.

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Homework

• In the 3rd section of your spiral define the
  following words for Unit 1
• Agriculture
• Paleolithic
• Civilization
• Domestication
• Nomadic
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Dynasty
• Bureaucracy
• Monotheism

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Extra Credit

• Research Stonehenge.
• Write a 1 page paper about it.
• Provide 2 sources!

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• Egypt page 45
• India -page 71-79
• China- 88-97