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=Home = =__Assignment 13__= Now that we are finished with the Mesopotamia unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about Mesopotamia. Please complete these sentences **clearly and with specific details**. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.

1. The single most important thing I learned was... The Civilizations of Mesopotamia was very important because this led to the future empire and also to us. If the Mesopotamia wasn't discovered by the ancient people now the world wouldn't be that developed. 2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was... The end of the empires, why did people stop conquering to get empires? 3. What surprised me the most was... How the emperors of the empire was very cruel only to make people to obey him. Why shouldn't people then just let them choose by themselves. 4. I would like to know more about... The longest and the strongest empire that ever been. And then the last empire, how the empire ended. 5. The part that I think I will always remember was... The Sumerians because they made a lot inventions that we still use today but more developed. =__Assignment 12__= =**Characteristics of Civilization**= =**Empire Name: Chaldeans**= Was it difficult to find evidence for the empire you picked? Why or why not? Yes, was hard to get food supply because all the sites didn't talk about anything of food supply. []
 * Source: Read pages 76 and 77 in your online textbook**
 * Directions:** Carefully read pages 76-77 and choose one of the empires below. Research the empire you have chosen (two links are provided for each already) and complete **The Characteristics of Civilization Chart** for the empire you chose. Write **clear and detailed** answers in the chart, on your wiki page, then **answer the question** below the chart. You will also have to indicate on your Scribble Map where the civilization you chose came from.
 * ==**Six Characteristics of Civilization**== || ==**Evidence for Characteristic**== || ==**Explanation**== ||
 * 1. Government || The king of the Chaldeans Nebuchadnezar || He created the group of people who attacked the Assyrians. ||
 * 2. Culture || The Nebuchadnezzar eleborated the Babylonian building project. || He made the hanging garden and it was one of the 7 wonders because it looks like the garden is hanging in the air. ||
 * 3. Religion || They had religion because they had the god marduk. || Marduk was the Babylonian's main god. And Chaldeans builded temples to the sumarian god other than Maruk. ||
 * 4. Food supply ||  ||   ||
 * 5. Social levels || There were different social levels like the king and citizens. || It proves that there is different social levels because there was the king Nabopolassar. ||
 * 6. Jobs || The Chaldeans became the center of astronomy. || There were scientist who studied the planets and stars to predict the future. ||
 * Assyrians **

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=**Hittites**= [|http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/HITTITES.HTM]

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=**Chaldeans**= []

[|http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/CHALDEAN.HTM] =__Assignment 11__= Go to this [|site] and read about the different Mesopotamian gods, goddesses, demons, and monsters. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god, goddess, demon, or monster. Then choose one that you would __**not**__ want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are **middle school quality explanations**. I would like to be the goddess Adad. I would like to that because I would be controlling when there isl rain, storm, lightening strikes, blizzards, ect. I also think it is a good job because it is not that hard. I don't like to be the god like Apkallu human because it is hard to be going around the world teaching people how to bless pray, ect. I also like to control things and I also like to be powerful so I will like to control something that is powerful. Then I can get both things at the same time. I would be good to control the storms all around the world, I wouldn't have to do my job when it shouldn't be storming so I can rest a long time with piece.

__** Assignment 10 **__ 1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King? I would advise the king by punishing people such as whole steal or murder, the punishment will be death or paying by times. 2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE? Ur lost power and became useless. 3. Where was Babylon located? It is located near the Euphrates river. 4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king? Hammurabi became the king in 1792 BCE. 5. What is a monarch? It is a ruler of a kingdom or empire. 6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire? He called it Babylonian empire. 7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have? He had ability to rule the whole empire well also he made irrigation and also he could build buildings. 8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover? Hammurabi's code is the 282 laws that goes to almost all daily life. It covers murder, trade and loans. 9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important. It was important because it was written so everyone can see, it was very detailed laws. 10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire? The empire's power declined after Hammurabi's death. 11. Read the different laws in the [|Code of Hammurabi on this site] and choose **three** that you think are interesting. __**Copy**__ the three laws and their **numbers** onto your page. Then for **each** law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death. I think this is important because stealing should not be allowed. If he hold the slaves in his house, and they are caught there, he shall be put to death. I don't think holding a slave is allowed. If he have no money to repay, then he shall pay in corn or sesame in place of the money as rent for what he received from the merchant, according to the royal tariff. I think it is important because it is important to pay someone who worked for you. =__Assignment 9__= After playing the Trader's Circuit, answer the following questions in complete sentences on your page. You can copy and paste these questions into your page. Then go to the **discussion tabs** of at least three other classmates and make **good quality middle school comments** about your classmates answers to the questions about the Trader's Circuit game. You can make comments to your classmates like if you agree or disagree or comments about how good their answers and ideas are. __**Trader's Circuit questions**__ 1. What part of the game did you like the best? Why? I liked the part where we traded because it was fun trying to get an monopoly on one item. 2. During the game, how did you feel and why did you feel that way? Because it was a fun game to like a real trader to get as much as same resources you can and get a monopoly. 3. What part of the game was difficult for you? Sometimes it was hard when I had to go around and trade things that others won't trade because they want don't want me to get a monopoly. 4. In your opinion, what advantage is there to having a monopoly of an entire product/resource such as dates or jewelry? If you have monopoly you can do anything with the prices because there is no one who is selling the same thing as you. 5. What part of the game would you change if you played it again? Why? I don't have any parts of the game I would change because I like how the game works. 6. In this game, was it better to cooperate with another player or to be selfish and try to get all the products/resources for yourself? Why? I think it was better to cooperate with others because then you can get monopoly faster and be friends with others. =__Assignment 8__= Use your online textbook pages 63 & 64 to answer these questions clearly and with details on your wiki page. Make sure to look through the **whole page** in your textbook and the links for the vocabulary when answering some of the questions.


 * 1) Where did the Akkadians live? They Akkadians lived in Akkad. In the north of Sumor.
 * 2) What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.? They were very different however they lived peacefully for 23years.
 * 3) Who was Sargon and what did he do? He was a powerful king and made the first empire.
 * 4) What did Sargon establish? He establish the first empire.
 * 5) Define 'empire'. Empire means that a village or a city/state rule on a single rule.
 * 6) Explain two examples why Sargon is considered a great leader. He was a great leader because they ate with their soldier he was the first ones to used bows and arrows.
 * 7) How long did Sargon rule his empire? More than 50years.
 * 8) What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire? After Sagron's death the Empire became Chaos.
 * 9) Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again? The sumarians became the most powerful in Mesopotamia.
 * 10) Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city? They had market to trade and houses forte.

=__Assignment 7__= Using **The Six Characteristics of a Civilization** (see below)**,** answer the following questions **clearly** and with **details** on your wiki page. = = 1. Is Korea/ the U.S. a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea/the U.S. for each characteristic. First Korea is a civilization because it has a government system that is for example a president, second, it has food supply because we farm and we sell the food that we farm. Third, it has jobs like teacher and doctors, also forth, we have different social level because we have president and citizen. Fifth, we have pop art, building, bands, Korean, technology, sentences or Korean again. Lastly, we have churches also Buda temples.  2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not? No, I don't think it needs to have a different social levels because a civilization does not matter with any of the levels. It only depends on the rest like we need a government because a government has to lead us and protect us. That is why I think there is no need of social levels.

1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society. 2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change. 3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs. 4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others. 5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing. 6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
 * The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:**

=__**Assignment 6**__= Please summarize the section you are responsible for. You will present your section with your partner. Here is the PDF of all the sections: [|SumerianAchievementsSections.pdf]

=__Assignment 5__= Using your sheet from class about Sumerian achievements, which achievements would go under each of these categories? (For example, devotional statues would be under the religion category.)
 * Government: Written Laws, city, states, king, organized army, written laws
 * Culture: Arch, Music, Games, irrigation, cuneiform, mathematics,
 * Religion: Ziggurat, devoltional staue,
 * Jobs: Devoltional statue, Metal working, mathematics, medicine, plowers, irrigation, sail boat, wheel, arch,

= = =__Assignment 4__= Go to this site ([|Sumerian Inventions]) and look at the //**Early Inventions**// section. Choose __**three**__ Sumerian inventions that you think are important for us today. In your own words, explain clearly and with details why these __**three**__ Sumerian inventions are important for us __**today**__. There is the wheel, the written language, and a frying pan. They are important for us today because the wheel, we use it for cars, bicycles and other uses, and we use written language to record history and even to communicate. Finally we use frying pans to cook food and make food hot. = = =__Assignment 3__= Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) __clearly__ and with __details__ on your wiki page.** **Use the handouts from class called** **//Event C://** //**Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System**// **&** //**Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities**// **to help you answer the questions.**
 * Are you smarter than a Neolithic person?

1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? They got buckets of water from the Tigris and Euphrates 2. How did farmers prevent flooding? They made dams to prevent flooding. 3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please __**clearly**__ explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers? They made water ways called canals. 4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food? It means stored food. 5. What could happen if one canal was clogged? Because most of the canals are connected all of the canals clog up. 6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system? They helped each other and they also communicated so they can know when the canals are clogged up.
 * Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System**

=**__Assignment 2__** Are you smarter than a Neolithic person? Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) clearly and with details on your wiki page. Use the handouts from class called Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply to help you answer the questions.= = = =**__Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply__**= =1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains?= =The plains got flooded and the crops failed also by droughts.= =2. How did they solve these problems?= =They solved the problem by making dams and storing water to the drought field.= =3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from?= =The zargo's mountain.= = = =1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia? The agriculture helped them and food supply. 2. What does cultivate mean? Cultivate means grow. 3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have? Their town got flooded and their crops kept on failing. 4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of your handout, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why? A, because if you move, then their is a better chance than you can still crop without failure, while C if you go back to hunters and gatherers, then it be just back to the Paleolithic period.= = = = = Next page