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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia: INDEX to sections on geography, climate, people, religion, trade and historical Background (prehistory, protohistory, Bronze Age and Iron Age)

Akkadian language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts)

The cuneiform writing system (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts)

Catal Huyuk Archaeology site

Gilgamesh

Abzu Regional Index: Mesopotamia

The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ

• What we discovered...
• History Reading: A Message of Ancient Days. Houghton Mifflin

1. Read pages 135-140. Complete questions "Exploring Concepts A" page 144
2. Read pages 150-163. Complete questions 1-6 page 161
3. Read pages 168-180. Complete questions "Exploring Concepts B" page 182

• Key Terms
• Aristocrat: a wealthy privileged person
• Ziggurat: a stepped temple
• City-state: a city that has its own government as a nation
• Mesopotamia: the land between two rivers. It refers to the land in modern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where Ur, Sumer and other ancient city-states were
• Lugal: a ruler in Mesopotamia
• cuneiform: the incised writing of Mesopotamia
• scribes: people who write down or copy others' words for a living
• nomads: tribespeople who travel through the year
• merchants: people who sell goods for a living
• Books

Nonfiction
Fiction:
The Golden Axe. Debra Nourse Lattimore
• CD Roms Encyclopedias: Encarta.Microsoft
• Events & Places

Rosicrucian Museum San Jose California

Literature Project: Gilgamesh Comic Strip

As part of your Core literature course at SVMS, each of you will be reading adaptations of Gilgamesh which is the oldest recorded piece of world literature! To show what you have learned of this legend you will be creating an eight panel "comic" strip of one of the legends of Gilgamesh.

Format: The strip will be made on 8.5X14" paper with eight panels. The panels will display a scene representative of one part of the story you are retelling. The panel will be captioned to provide a narration of the story. Thought and speech bubbles can be used to display dialogue between characters.

Scoring: Your Gilgamesh strip will be evaluated on

1. Level of accuracy in summary writing
2. Level of detailed interpretation of story
3. Level of detail in caricaturizing the settings, characters and action of the legend
4. Neatness and presentation of project

Time Frame: (All events must fall in between these dates) 3500 BC - 400 BC

Directions: Investigate and identify the historical date and the cultural contributions of:

Kingdoms	Empires	Kings
Sumer Akkad	Assyria Babylonia	Hammurabi  Nebuchadnezzar  Sargon  Shamsi-Adad

Report your findings by creating a single line time lime with three illustrations that represent the kingdoms, empires and kings and one illustration of an importatant innovation created during this time period in Mesopotamia. We will be using Timeliner software to create the time line and collecting images from internet sites or drawing and then scanning in our own.

Assignment will last four class periods.

Resources: Text (A Message of Ancient Days pp. 118 - 180), Time-Life Lost Civilizations: Mesopotamia (video), Bellerophon Books Mesopotamia, Usborne Series: Early Civilization, Towns and Villages, World History Dates, SVMS Website Portal to the Past, ABZU index

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