Southwest Asia the Fertile Crescent

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Southwest Asia – The Fertile Crescent

Learning Targets:

·  I can describe the geography, and human settlement of the first civilizations in Southwest Asia.

·  I can analyze the Sumerian culture including leaders, religion, and conflict.

·  I can discuss the impact of new technologies on the Sumerian civilization.

·  I can summarize Hammurabi’s code of laws in Babylon.

·  I can assess how trade impacted the Phoenician society.

Unit Assignments:

·  Post Test

·  Open Response

·  Quizzes

·  Interactive Notebook

Unit Vocabulary:

Fertile Crescent, Silt, Irrigation, Canals, Surplus, Division of labor, Rural, Urban, City-state, Gilgamesh, Sargon, Empire, Polytheism, Priests, Social hierarchy

Cuneiform, Pictographs, Scribe, Epics, Architecture, Ziggurat, Monarch, Hammurabi’s Code,

Nebuchadnezzar, Phoenicia Alphabet