We are deep into our study of early Mesopotamia. Today we talked about ancient religion and polytheism. We also talked about Sargon and the world's first empire. We talked about what happens when an emperor dies and that gave us an excuse to watch the new Star Wars trailer and make parallels between Sargon and Emperor Palpatine.
We also spent time on our maps. We are going to test on Mesopotamian maps next Tuesday so we are going to spend time reviewing these maps everyday. Yesterday we filled out maps so the students know exactly what will be asked on the test next Tuesday. So study up! Next week I hope to start our project where the students will design their own ancient cities.
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We are finishing up our chapter questions on prehistory today so we are ready to move onto the study of ancient Mesopotamia this week. We will watch a video to get us going and do some MAP work. We will have another map to memorize starting this week with a test on it towards the middle of next week. See the map attached below. We will studying ancient cities and the development of writing. The project for this unit will be to design their cities. We may get to that latter this week , but it will probably be next week before dive into designing those. Let me know if you have any questions.
Happy Tuesday! We finished our Maps unit and have moved into studying pre-history. We are watching a PBS documentary on the Ice Man discovered in the Italian Alps and what we learned about pre-historic peoples via studying his mummy. We are going to move into talking about the Agricultural Revolution and early human migration before we start into Mesopotamia during the next two weeks or so. Check back here for more updates.
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