Transcript Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?

Discovering Our Past
• Page 68
• Introduce Map
Activity
More complex
cultures called
civilizations
began to
develop during
the late
Neolithic Age.
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What do all of the
civilizations shown have
in common?
Around 3000 B.C., these four civilizations
developed in river valleys.
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Textbook page 68
Mesopotamia,
“the cradle of civilization”
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Mesopotamia developed
in what is present day
Iraq in SW Asia.
What does the
satellite picture
reveal about
Southwest Asia?
Mesopotamia, “the cradle of civilization”
What does it mean to be the
“cradle of civilization”?
Natural Resources
• Water for crops
and people
• Fertile soil
• Fish
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Because much of the
Fertile Crescent is a
desert, the people
who live there
depend on irrigation
to raise their crops.
Mesopotamia
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Map Practice
Early
civilizations
developed in
river valleys
because of
available
natural
resources.
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By the beginning of the Bronze Age—around
3,000 BCE—four great river civilizations
emerged with similar characteristics.
What have we learned?
Early
civilizations
developed in
river valleys
because of
available
natural
resources.
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Our goal will be to analyze documents to
find common characteristics early
civilizations shared.
Flipped class HW: work with a partner
to answer questions using your map.
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This activity will help you be better able
to extend what you are learning to other
civilizations. (Level 4 on learning scale)
1. The source of river is where it begins.
40°North-40°East
2. The mouth of river is where it flows into
a larger body of water.
The Persian Gulf is at the mouth of the
Tigris River.
3. The mouth of river is where it flows into
a larger body of water.
The mouth of the Nile River is in the
Mediterranean Sea.
Building Background
Knowledge
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 Return to the Edmodo
page and watch the
Brain pop video about
Sumerians .
While you color, we can learn more about early civilizations.
The first 3
minutes of
Indus Valley
Civilization:
Crash Course #2
reviews
characteristics
of a civilization.
It also explains how
artifacts found in
Mesopotamia are
evidence of trade
between the two
civilizations.
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Use the map on page 67 to
color bodies of water, rivers
and ancient civilizations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM