Inestimable

Chapter 2 section 1 pages 29 to 34, chapter 4 section 2 and chapter 4 section 3, 95

to 103

Mesopotamians

Brainstorm how to teach the class the sections we are presenting on, 2
presentations, show him how I want to be taught. Lots of pictures and smiley faces,
candy, fun, happy, little cute visuals, (ask for help from artist) technology. Make a
quiz, next Monday presentations 18 TO 20 MINUTES
LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notes:

Geography section 1 chapter 2:

• Desert climate, but in the dry region lays an ark of land. (fertile Crescent)
• Includes land facing Mediterranean sea and a plain known know as
Mesopotamia
• Environmental challenges:
• Unpredictable flooding, very defenseless (no natural barriers), very limited
natural resources (building materials and other necessities scarce)
• Organization, problem solving through it:
• To provide water they dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their
fields, they built city walls with mud bricks for defenses, traded their grain,
cloth and crafted goods with mountain people and gained stone, wood, and
metal in return.

Babylonians

 Hammurabis Laws:
○ If a man has stolen an ox, a sheep, a pig, or a boat that belonged to a
temple or a palace, he shall repay thirty times its cost. If it belonged to
a private citizen, he shall repay at ten times its cost. If the thief cannot
pay, he shall be sentenced to death.
○ If a women hates her husband and says to him “you cannot be with
me” the authorities in her district will investigate the case. If she has
been chaste, without fault, she will be held innocent and may return to
her father’s house.
○ If the women is at fault she will be thrown in the river
○ If a man put out the eye of a man, his eye shall be put out
○ If he puts out the eye of freed man or break the bone of a freed man,
he shall pay one gold mina
○ If he put out the eye of a man’s slave, or brake the bone of a man’s
slave, he shall pay one half its value
 Hammurabi was a just, diplomatic ruler, he is famous for code of law ^
 After his death, Babylon was invaded Hittites, Kassites, Chaldeans, and
Assyrians.
 When the king Nebuchadnezzar, conquered the city, Babylon regained its
former glory in the sixth century bc.
 Very awe inspiring
 Citys patron god: Marduk
 Babylon means “Gate of the God”
 Enormous city walls