PPT-Chapter 3 Section 3 Sumerian Achievements

Section 3 Sumerian Achievements The Big Idea The Sumerians made many advances that helped their society develop Main Ideas The Sumerians invented the worlds first writing system Advances and inventions changed Sumerian lives. Fertile Crescent. Mesopotamia. i. rrigate. c. ity-state. b. arter. p. olytheism. z. iggurat. c. uneiform. e. mpire . a. lly. c. ultural trait. Hammurabi’s Code. r. ule of law. c. avalry. s. tanding army. Your teacher: Robert Fitzpatrick. Class Rules. Only one person talks at a time. . When somebody speaks in class, be a respectful, engaged listener. . Use the bathroom before class. . Treat others and your surroundings as you would like to be treated. . -. Artworks-. Worshipper Statuettes. Victory Stele of . Naram. -Sin. Ziggurat. Sumerian. -. The . Sumerians were the people who transformed the vast, flat lower valley between the Tigris & Euphrates into the Fertile Crescent of the ancient world. Sparsely inhabited before the Sumerians, this area is now southern Iraq. . Sumerian Achievements. Main Ideas:. 1. . The Sumerians invented the world’s first writing system.. 2. Advances and inventions changed Sumerian lives.. 3. Many types of art developed in Sumer.. Key terms:. History of Architecture I. Module 3. Architecture of the Ancient Near East. Module Outline. Lecture 6. Historical Background. Location and period . Social characteristics and beliefs. Architecture of the Civilization. Mesopotamian Civilization. Mesopotamian Civilization. p17-20. What do you call a complex society that has an organized government, art, religion, class divisions and a writing system?. A civilization. Introduction:. Civilization. developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.. By . 3,000. B.C., a number of cities are established by the Sumerians.. Role of Environment. Created in a region that . Sumeria. Section 2: The Rise of Sumer. The Big Idea. The Sumerians developed the first civilization in Mesopotamia.. Main Ideas. The Sumerians created the world’s first advanced society. .. Looking at Sumerian history and government. APAH – . GARDNER . CHAPTER 2-1. PP. 31-42. And so they traveled until they reached . Uruk. .. There Gilgamesh the king said to the boatman:. “Study the brickwork, study the fortification;. climb the ancient staircase to the terrace;. 5.1 Introduction. Focus on Sumerian culture.. In 1800’s archeologists bean finding artifacts in Mesopotamia.. By studying artifacts the archeologists have learned about Sumer.. One artifact is the Standard of Ur.. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. Section 3- . Sumerian Achievements. The Big Idea. The Sumerians made many . advances. that . helped. their society . develop. .. Main Ideas. The Sumerians invented the . Two Early City-States. Catal Huyuk. Jericho. Catal Huyuk is the oldest and the largest Neolithic city found, so far. It dates to 8,000 years BCE and was occupied continuously for 376 generations. No specific reasons for its abandonment have been found. . Dr. Wang . Qi. Department of Architecture and Built Environment . Between the rivers – the cradle of western history and architecture. Irrigated by two rivers. The earliest literary civilization. State-cities . The . Kharsag. Tablets. Edmund Marriage. Extract from Learning from History Part 16. Delving deeper into the detailed evidence to add knowledge to my previous presentations. www.goldenageproject.org.uk.