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Ancient Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up

  • 10R- Title Page
  • 11L- Geography Map
  • 11R- Geography Notes
  • 12L- Hammurabi DBQ Background Essay
  • 12R- Religion Notes
  • 13L- Hammurabi DBQ Document A
  • 13R- Achievements Notes

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up

  • 14L- Hammurabi DBQ Document D
  • 14R- Politics Notes
  • 15L-
  • 15R- Economics Notes
  • 16L- Hammurabi DBQ Document E
  • 16R- Social Structure Notes
  • 17L- Geography, Religion & Achievements Quiz
  • 17R- Politics, Economics & Social Structure Quiz

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up

  • 18L- Hammurabi DBQ Bucketing
  • 18R- Hammurabi DBQ Paragraph GO
  • 19L- Ch. 4-6 Essay Paragraph
  • 19R- Ch. 4-6 Study Guide

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up (Honors)

  • 10R- Title Page
  • 11L- Geography Map
  • 11R- Geography Notes
  • 12L- Hammurabi DBQ Background Essay
  • 12R- Religion Notes
  • 13L- Hammurabi DBQ Document A
  • 13R- Achievements Notes

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up (Honors)

  • 14L- Hammurabi DBQ Document D
  • 14R- Politics Notes
  • 15L- Hammurabi DBQ Document B
  • 15R- Economics Notes
  • 16L- Hammurabi DBQ Document E
  • 16R- Social Structure Notes
  • 17L- Geography, Religion & Achievements Quiz
  • 17R- Politics, Economics & Social Structure Quiz

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Mesopotamia Notebook Set-up (Honors)

  • 18L- Hammurabi DBQ Bucketing
  • 18R- Hammurabi DBQ Paragraph GO
  • 19L- Ch. 4-6 Essay Paragraph
  • 19R- Ch. 4-6 Study Guide

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Geography Notes

  • Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers- The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
  • The rivers flow into the Persian Gulf
  • Hammurabi ruled Babylonia and eventually most of Mesopotamia

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did geography impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Geography

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Notes:

  • Mesopotamia: Land between 2 rivers
    • Tigris and Euphrates
    • Flow to Persian Gulf
    • Hammurabi ruled most of it

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Questions

  • Where is Mesopotamia?

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Geography Notes

  • Rivers provided: water for drinking, transportation, and food

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  • Rivers flooded- uncontrolled water supply (problem)

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  • People adapted to their environment by building canals, levees and dams to irrigate their crops: Irrigation system (solution)

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did geography impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Geography

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NOTES:

Mesopotamia: Land between 2 rivers

    • Tigris and Euphrates
    • Flows to Persian Gulf
    • Hammurabi ruled most of it

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Rivers brought water:

    • For drinking, transportation, and food

Problems w/ rivers:

    • Flooding
    • Solution: build irrigation system

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QUESTIONS:

  • Where is Mesopotamia?

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  • What did the rivers bring?

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  • What were the problems/solutions?

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Religion Notes

  • Sumerians, like Hammurabi, believed that kings got their power from the gods

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  • Built religious towers called ziggurats
    • Believed gods lived there

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did religion impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Religion

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  • Sumerians believed the kings got power from gods
  • They built temples
    • Ziggurats
      • Home of the gods

QUESTIONS\Key Words:

Where did king get power?

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Why did Meso. People build ziggurats?

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Essential Question

  • How did achievements impact the Mesopotamian people?

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Achievements Notes

Two inventions helped provide a stable food supply before Hammurabi ruled:

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  • To control natural flooding, Sumerians built an irrigation system- levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs-
    • Canals brought water to fields and crops, controlled water flow with gates

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  • Sumerians invented the plow

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Achievements Notes

  • Sumerians also invented the wheel
    • used it to invent the cart, the wagon, the chariot, and a new type of pottery

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  • Sumerians enjoyed music and sculpture

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  • Sumerians had first written laws
    • Written in Cuneiform:

invented by Mesopotamians

    • Hammurabi wrote first complete code of laws

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did achievements impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Achievements

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  • INVENTIONS:
    • Irrigation system
      • Canals, dams, levees
        • All controlled the water supply
    • Plow
      • Helped make farming easier
    • Wheel (cart, wagon)
    • Written laws-1st
      • Written in Cuneiform
      • Hammurabi wrote first code of laws

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QUESTIONS\Key Words:

What inventions did they have?

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Essential Question

  • How did politics affect the people in Mesopotamia?

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Politics Notes

  • Hammurabi ruled Mesopotamia from about 1792-1750 B.C.E.
  • He developed the first written code of laws
    • Specific crimes led to specific punishments
    • Punishment had to fit the crime (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)
    • Social class mattered in determining consequence
      • Higher ranks received lesser punishments
  • No one could change the laws because they were written in stone outside the temple

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did politics impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Politics

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  • Hammurabi 1792-1750 BCE:
    • Wrote first set of written laws
      • Punishments were really specific
        • Eye for eye, tooth for tooth
    • Laws were written in stone
      • So no one could change them

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QUESTIONS\Key Words:

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Why was Hammurabi important?

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Essential Question

  • How did economics affect the Mesopotamian people?

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Economics Notes

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  • Most Babylonians were farmers and depended on crops for survival

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  • The Babylonians traded with people from all around the Persian Gulf

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did economics impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Economics

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  • Most Babylonians were farmers

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  • Traded with people all along Persian Gulf

QUESTIONS\Key Words:

What job did most people have?

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Who did they trade with?

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Essential Question

  • How did social structure impact Mesopotamia?

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Social Structure Notes

  • Social hierarchy (structure) shaped like a pyramid
    • Small number at the top- landowners
    • Middle group was larger- free people that did not own land
    • Largest group at the base- slaves

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  • Women in the Babylonian Empire could own property, but they could not choose their

own husband

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This is what your notes should look like:�Essential Question: How did social structure impact the people of Mesopotamia?�Topic: Social Structure

NOTES:

  • Social Structure shaped like a pyramid
    • Few people at the top many people below
      • Landowners (TOP)
      • Free people that did not own land (MIDDLE)
      • Slaves (BOTTOM)

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  • Women
    • Had some rights they could

own property, but not choose

husband

QUESTIONS\Key Words:

What was Meso/ SS shaped like?

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