Unit 2 Mesopotamia

Big Idea:Civilizations create economic, religious and cultural structures to develop and flourish.

Essential Questions:What makes a group of people become considered a “civilization?” Why do societies need laws? How did geography encourage the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia? How did religion explain natural events and affect the social order in Sumer? How did new inventions help the Sumerians form a civilization in Mesopotamia? Was Hammurabi’s Code just?

Unit Activities

Creation Story of Sumer

Medicine of Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia Unit Student Book

Mesopotamia A-Z Unit Project

Sumerian Civilization

Unit Videos

Hammurabi's Code - Twelve Tables - Flocabulary.mp4

The Fertile Crescent - Flocabulary.mp4