Description
This Ancient Mesopotamia PowerPoint Includes SPICET Notes, and Explores Geography, Politics, Religion, and Life of Sumerian and Babylonian Civilizations.
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This PowerPoint covers:
- Cooperative learning activity for a warm up
- Geography of the Fertile Crescent
- Challenges of the regions
- How people modified their environment
- Sumerian city-states
- Ur
- Ziggurats
- Political structure and the rise of dynasties
- Cultural diffusion
- Religious beliefs and practices
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Social classes and gender roles
- Sumerian innovations in science and technology
- Cuneiform
- Sargon of Akkad
- Hammurabi and the significance of Hammurabi's Code
- King Nebuchadnezzar II
- Ties to the Old Testament
- Tower of Babel
- Walls of Babylon
- The Hanging Gardens
- Lasting influence
- Pop quiz for closing activity to check for understanding