Reflect back on our study of Ancient Mesopotamia and visit this website:
Please blog your responses to the questions below before the end of the period.
- What new things have you learned today about Mesopotamia?
- What are areas that you have enriched your previous knowledge of Mesopotamia?
Thank you!
Mr. Ferrell
48 comments:
New it takes alot of peeps to make a ziggurt.Enrich a ziggurt can have alot of levels.
ona number one
new- in 900 b.c. assyrain kings sent armies to conquer new lands. the king lead his armyh against who ever refused to give tribute.
enriched- ziggurats were constructed in babylonian and assyrain cities.
dustin
New they had polos and another hat called a Agu Sha Qarni.
eriched only priest got to go to the highest points of the zigurat.
Blaine #19
NEW
Some people could defeat the mespatamian army.
ENRICH
needed trade to live
Abby #4
New-
priests looked after the gods and goddesses
in assyria there were palaces that inspired the loyality and fear of ordinary people and visitors
Enrich-
ziggarats were origanally built on platforms
in babylon they used different transports for different goods or crops
Abigail#25
New:Warfare had a king named Sennacherid.
Enriched:they put tablets in the library.
New-
1. They have thier "fairy tales" that they beilieved in.
2. Trading posts where so important!
3. Astronomers could predict when and where the planet will appear.
Enriched-
1. Cunaform writing has no sympols like the egyptions did.
2. Ziggurats ment akit to the king.
3. Astronomers knew that all the planets moved in circles.
New things:
used seals to write their name
Enriched:
used irrigation (ditch) to get water to make food- only allowed a little bit
traded far away- fabric, food for money (gold)
ziggurat- built out of mud turned into bricks by lots of workers
Alee #2
New~
~ An archeoligist named c. leonard woolley found 16 tombs in a number of 1800 of them. These tombs were ancient and had lots of valuables.
~Some of the demonds were bad and most were good.
Enrich~
~An early writing called pictograms were developed for taxes and information on crops.
~demons were created by gods with human bodies.
Eric #3
New:Grain, oils, and textiles were taken to different cities for timber.
Demons were created by gods with human bodies and animal heads.
Each city was protected by its own specail god.
Enrich:The people traveled by foot,donkey,gulf boat,raft,coracle,river boat, and cart.
Sierra #11
1. The new things that I learned throughout this entire lesson is all the cities in Mespotamia and about the way the rivers fall iut the mountain.
2. The areas that I have enriched my knowledge is about Judiasm and the hanging Gardens and also about Babylonia and Abraham and Moses.
ely 21
New.Assyria was very good at war
Enrich.Only god and goddesses on earth
Tyler #8
New: Thay thought hundereds of gods and godisses ruled them. At one time there was only gods on the worled
Enrich:thay imporeded crops like barley peopel thoet that thay were ruled by gods
Coleman #22
New:Mesopotamia has no natural rescources.
Over 300 mesopotamian lands were ruled by the Assyrians.
Pazuru is a demon that protects people from the plague & evil forces.
Inrich:Text tiles=fabric or cloth.Cuniform was based on picto graphs.Astronimers are scribes that study the stars & planests.
Michelle #13
New:
-There were tombs called the "Royal Tomb" because they had valuable items in the tombs
-Each city was protected by a god or goddess
-Some demons were bad and some were good demons
Enrich:
-The earliest writing was based on pictograms
-Demons had a human body but had an animals head
Kyara #17
#1. I learned that after the buildings were almost all down
they tore down the rest of the building!
#2. Sumer and Babylonia.
Taylor #5
New- Demons had humans bodies and animals or birds heads.
Assyria was good at war.
Enriched - writing went from pictogram, to old cuneiform,to new cuneiform.
victoria 14
New: After one ziggurat falls they make another one right in its place.
:King Sennacherib was the king of Assyrian a long time ago.
:The army would make ramps for all of the heavy stuff to travel up or down so that people did not have to climb and carry all that heavy stuff at onece.
Enrich: Mesopotamia means "land between two rivers". :Mesopotamia is between the tiguras and the Euphrates river.
Michaela #18
New:
1.Only preists were allowed to climb the staircases of the ziggurat.
2.There was 2 vertical drains on the ziggurat to drain all of the rain.
Enrich:I learned more about the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
I also learned more about the ziggurats and how they were made.
Each mud brick is 30x30x7 and they were all 15 kg.
Caiti #7
NEW:
* There is a "Oueen of the Night". She is Isntar, the godness and the war.
* pictoframs is a name that they used to communicate basic info. about crops & takes.
ENRICH:
* Grains, oils, textiles were takrn from babylon to foreign cities and exchange fo timber, wine preciousmetals,stones.
Catie#9
#1 New: That they hade mosters and demons,They a time systom,The Euphrates river flows into syria,They have meany Gods,Goddesses
#2 Enrich: I learned more about ziggret like a side name was called the buttress
Felicia #20
New
1.In the 6th century B.c.the scribes of Enurna Aun Enlil were a group of men who worked at a court house
Enrich
1.The earliest writing was based on pictograms.
Hunter#16 new,A lot of people help make a of ziggurat.
Enrich
Did know made a lot of Ziggurats.
over 300 years Mesopotamia and lands further to the east and west became the assyrian empire.
if the region rebelled against his rule or refused to give tribute the king wuold lead his army against them.
the king took good care of the empire.
there were few armies who could defeat the assyrians as they were well trained and had good weapons.
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Tori #22
New- Farmers in Sumer grew imported crops like barley in a land without much rainfall and limited water supply.
Enrich- Canals and irrigation ditches were built for redirecting water flow.
swofford
dalton#9
new i f you are bilding a zigorot you will need a lought of peopl and thay will need to be strong.
Enrich
some times you see stuff but you do not now what it meansor what it is.
Swofford
Addison#2
Something new I learned todayis that by 2000 B.C. mud brick ziggurats were being built.
Enrich is that ziggurats are large buildings with many levels.
swofford
kyle denny6
new
a boy is a god
enrich
a zigrerat is hard to bield
Swofford, Amanda #12
1. New- Each city was protected by a special god or goddess.
2. Enrich- All of the royal ziggurats for kings were in Sumer.
Swofford
Tanner 25
New
That they had goods to and a lot
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enrich a lot of workers for the zigratuse
Swofford ashley#3
In assyria the king took care of buissness in the palace. In assyria rituals were purformed in the pallace.
New-demoonds can be good or evil.
enrich-ziggarats are a verey dificult to build.
Tyler #8
Swofford
Weston#13
1. enrich
They used clay to build ziggurats.
2. new
In Sumer they had royal games.
swofford
C.J. #7
I learened that the houses were made of made of mud brick and the door and frame are made of wood. I already new they carried swords in a built and in a case.
Swofford
Timothy Mitchell#17
New- I learned that a demon spirit was either a good or bad spirit.
Enrich- I learned more about how their houses were made and if they fall down the wuold knock down the old walls ,and they would start to rebuild another house on top of that.
swoford
Dakota#23
i learned that rabuis the god of wrigting.
ziggerots take a lot of people to bild.
swofford
Haylee #5
New-Did not have to many natural resources.traveled by foot, donkey, boat, raft, coracle, riverboat, and cart to trade. They have tablet librarys
Enrich-You have to have the right amount of workers to build a zuggurat to be succsesful. Aplum was a scribe.
Swofford
Savanah #15
New-They would build ziggurats for the gods. The cities would also make offerings to the gods.
Enrich-Each city was protected by its own special god. Priests looked after the gods with special rituals. There were hundreds of gods from trees, to poetry, and rivers.
swofford
destinee #11
New around 2100 bc king ur-Nammu
built a ziggutat in honnor of the god sin.
it is very hard to build a ziggurat.
swofford
madison 20
New- ziggarats are very hard to make and it takes alot of teamwork to make one succsessfully. I also didnt know that in ancient babalonia they had astronomers. wich lead me to believe that they are or where just as interested in space and science as we are today
enrich- the enric is that ziggarats are made for the gods they were bult for they were a show of respect. also that the torah is still read by the modern day religons of christianity muslum and islam.
swofford
jake#16
new I learnedthat the only part of counting the stars has been translated
enrich learning about astronamy was
done by a king his father and his grandfather.
swofford frankie 26
new:houses washed away in rain .
enriched:more workers saved better
when bilding zigarot
swofford
alex#10
enrichment ziggurats were easy exciting and scary building wise.
new buildings were made of remains.
new war wepons were little exciting and boring
enrichment there were creepy gods and goddes.
Swofford
Wally 18
Enrich- Ziggurats were hard to build because you need the right amount of people to do stuff or you may or may not have enough bricks.
New- People wanted to have the kings houses higher than theirs. Each time a buildings was taken down they used it as foundation for the next building. Assyrian kings sent out their armies to conquer new lands. Arrows for war were made of arrowheads.
teacher Mrs.Swofford
I learned that ziggurats were originally built on platforms. During the third millenium B.C.
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blake#21
new grain and oil,texttile were taken from babalonia.
the astronomers had many different responsebilities.
mesopatamia is a greek word meaning between to rivers.
#16 Hunter
I think the hardest one in the 2nd part of the year is know & explain relationship between frations'decimals'& percents. I think what will be easy this year is compare & order factions.
1. My favorite part about this project was using the video cameras, and our theme song!
2. A strggle we had was with talking loud enough into the camera.
3. This project helped me understand more about how and why Caesar died.
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