Please make sure that you have these notes for Unit 1 Section 2 Mesopotamia Civilization
Note:  Because students did a project for this section, the notebook was not checked.  This section is being scored with Unit1 Section 3.

Sargon
Conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the first world’s empire

Hammurabi

• King of Babylonia
• Developed law code

civilization

Society that has cities, organized government,

art, religion, class divisions, and

a writing system.

irrigation

Watering plants through

• Dams and channels
• Walls, waterways and ditches

city-state

Sumerians protected city-states with mud-brick walls.

cuneiform

• Sumerian writing system
• Contains hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with sharp reeds

code

a set of laws or regulations

Mesopotamia

• Means the “land between rivers”
• Tigris River and Euphrates River

First Civilization

• Formed in river valleys
• Farming
• Fresh Water

Techonology

• Mathematical ideas: geometry, number system based on 60

(Thank you for 60 minutes in an hour!  And 360 degree circle!)