The First Civilizations


The author, John Green, has a great video series covering world civilizations, watch the Mesopotamia one here!

September 10-25

In Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers, groups turned into villages, which turned into towns, which turned into civilizations. These civilizations grew, and began to trade and fight with each other. Let's learn about them!

Civilizations!

September 10

What's a civilization???

Copy of + Unit 1 Lesson 3 c

Sumer

(page 32-33 in textbook)

Cuniform

Cuneiform!

Watch these videos to learn more!

Copy of + Unit 1 Lesson 4 a

Babylon

Click the picture to read about the Code of Hammurabi!

+ Unit 1 Lesson 4.B

Israel

The Prince of Egypt

On Netflix!!!

The Bible, Season 1 Episode 1

Learn about Abraham on Netflix!!!

A story from the Hebrew Bible

A clip from the story of Moses

Copy of + Unit 1 Lesson 4 C

Assyrians & Chaldeans