Ancient Civilizations

We last learned the development of agriculture lead to a stable food supply for early humans.

Permanent shelters

Development of Communities

Specialized Jobs

The beginning of Trade

What Came next?

agriculture allowed small communities to grow into larger cities.

Larger cities, then, developed into complex societies, marking the beginning of ancient civilizations

Civilization?

Civilization Characteristic 1

Civilization Characteristic 2

Civilization Characteristic 3

Civilization Characteristic 4

CIVILIZATION CHARACTERISTIC 5

CIVILIZATION CHARACTERISTIC 6

CIVILIZATION CHARACTERISTIC 7

Sumerian City Project

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Steps to Complete

• To begin, you and a partner will read and take notes about sumerian Civilization a section at a time.

Permit To build

• after each section, you will take a mini quiz.
• You must pass this mini quiz in order to get a permit to build a specific charactersitic of Sumerian Civilization.

Granted Permits

• After quizzes are passed, granted permits will go in your hanging folders.
• THen you will move on to the next section of the book until you obtain 7 permits.

Construction

• After you've attained 7 permits, one for each characteristic of sumerian civilization, you will begin
• construction of Your own Sumerian City

Process Reviewed

• Read/Notes
• quiz/Permit Granted
• Construction (7 Permits)

Questions?

Guiding Question: Why do historians classify ancient sumer as a civilization?

Reading to Learn

• What in the text made you think that?
• According to the text.....

Group Work

• (G)et along------ compromise
• (R)espect the class--noise levels
• (O)ffer help------work together
• (U)se a plan
• (P)articipate----equally and actively
• (S)tay focused---self regulate