Transcript Mesopotamia - Coach Owens - History 8

Mesopotamia
Sumer, Egypt, and Israel
Opening Activity
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Spend the first 10 minutes working on
your organizer that was given to you on
Friday.
We will distribute quizzes shortly
What do we want to study?
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Compare three regions in terms of:
Their language, religion, architecture, and
leaders.
Identify on a map where these civilizations
existed
Explain the religion of Judiaism
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Know its sacred text, leaders, and tradtions.
Where are we going to?
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We are headed to the
Middle East.
Areas of the current
countries of Egypt,
Iraq, Iran, and Israel.
Who were the first inhabitants?
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Most early pre-history people were nomads,
meaning they roamed from place to place
The nomads lived during the Paleolithic or Old
Stone Age.
They roamed around b/c they were looking for
food.
Once they learned how to grow food, they
settled near rivers, created various technology,
or tools to help preform better at tasks.
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This period is called the Neolithic
Period, or New Stone Age.
Look at your map
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This is a map of :
What bodies of water surround this area
Where do the two rivers empty to?
What are the two earliest rivers named
What are Babylon and Ur located near
rivers?
The Sumerians
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Existed in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley
Formed city-states or cities with small
surrounding areas of rule.
Had a King
Developed cunieform writing
Built large ziggurats or religious temples
Three social class system- kings and relgious
people, merchant-farmer, slaves
Sumerians
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Created the story The Epic of Gilgamesh
Created the sailboat, 60 second minute, a
numbering system based on 60, and the
360 degree circle.
Opening activity
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Use the following terms to fill in the blank
of the sentence. Write the sentence down
in your graphic organizer (on back).
Paleolithic, Neolithic.
In the _______ or Old Stone Age,
man was nomadic. In the _______
or New Stone Age, man settled and
started to farm.
The Assyrians
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Developed the first empire or large
region ruled by one person
Developed the first iron weapons, which
made them fierce warriors
A well organized government that was
divided into provinces or divisions
Great builders of temples in the city of
Ninevah
Chaldeans
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Led by King Nebuchadnezzar
Built the great city of Babylon
Babylon becomes a major trade city under
their rule
Know for their developments in
astronomy.
Sundials and the seven day week
What is a criminal law?
What is a civil law?
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law is a law that
deals with harm to a person or
animal.
Civil law deals with disputes or
actions of negligence between
two parties.
objective
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Analyze Hammurabi’s code.
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Discuss reasons for having law
Evaluate the fairness of the Hammurabi’s
code
Create laws based on situations Hammurabi
may have faced.
A law has to be
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Fair to everyone
Enforced
Consistent
Has to have punishment if you break it.
Hammurabi
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King of Babylon
Wrote the first code of
written law
Law focused not only on
the laws, but
punishments as well.
Law has become the
“gold standard” of how
we write our laws today.
The Code of Hammurabi
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282 laws
An “Eye for an Eye
and tooth for a tooth”
Look at the examples
on your sheet.
Hammurabi Situations
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Divide into groups
Read the situation that Coach Owens
gives you
I’ll give you the situation
You resolve it
Write the situation on the board and the
law.
What should be done to the
carpenter who builds a house that
falls and kills the owner?
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Rule 229
If a builder builds a house for a man and
does not make its construction sound, and
the house which he has built collapses and
causes the death of the owner of the
house, the builder shall be put to death.
What should be done when a
"sister of god" (or nun) enters the
wine shop for a drink?
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Rule 110
If a "sister of god" (nun) who is not living
in a convent opens a wine shop or enters
a wine shop for a drink, they shall burn
that woman.
What should happen to a boy who
slaps his father?
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Rule 195
If a son strikes his father, they shall cut
off his hand.
What should be done about a wife
who ignores her duties and belittles
her husband?
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Rule 143
If the woman has not been careful but has
gadded about, neglecting her house and
belittling her husband, they shall throw
that woman into the water.
How is the truth determined when
one man brings an accusation
against another?
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Rule #2
If any one bring an accusation against a man,
and the accused go to the river and leap into the
river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take
possession of his house. But if the river prove
that the accused is not guilty, and he escape
unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation
shall be put to death, while he who leaped into
the river shall take possession of the house that
had belonged to his accuser