Tuesday, October 31 Day  14

On a historical map, locate the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and identify Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria as successive civilizations and empires in this region, and explain why the region is sometimes called “the Fertile Crescent.” On a modern map of western Asia, identify the modern countries in the region (Iraq, Iran, and Turkey).

 Describe who Hammurabi was and explain the basic principle of justice in Hammurabi’s Code (“an eye for an eye”). 

7.9 Describe how irrigation, metalsmithing, slavery, the domestication of animals, and inventions such as the wheel, the sail, and the plow contributed to the growth of Mesopotamian civilizations.

7.10 Describe the important achievements of Mesopotamian civilization. (H, C, E)

1. its system of writing (and its importance in record keeping and tax collection)
2. monumental architecture (the ziggurat)
3. art (large relief sculpture, mosaics, and cylinder seals)

 

Time	Day 14
7:25-7:30(5)	Video Team News	http://mediacast.franklinps.net/url/100317
7:30-7:45  (15)	CONNECTIONS	*Attendance
7:47- 8:44  (57)	A	Have your BSR sheets visible in your hw folder. Write down the homework - BSR #2 current notes; quiz Friday, ps on quiz and/or test Happy Halloween
8:46- 9:43  (57)	B	See A
9:45 - 10:33 (48)	FLEX music day or SSR
10:35- 10:55 (20)	Lunch
10:57-11:56 (59)	E2
11:58- 12:54 (57)	C	see A
12:57- 1:54  (57)	D	see A
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