1. Identify:
Fertile Crescent: The region's curved shape and the richness of its land.
Silt: A thick bed of mud.
Irrigation: Ditches that carried river water to their fields.
City State: When each city or surrounding land is controlled.
Dynasty: A serious of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: Process of a new idea or product spreading from one culture to another.
Polytheism: The belief in many gods.
Empire: Brings together several people nation or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: ?
2. Challenges/solutions
Challenge - Couldn't communicate.
Solution - Developed the first system of writing.
Challenge - They had no transportation.
Solution - They invented the wheel and the sail.
Challenge - They had no tools for planting.
Solution - They invented the plow.
3. Their advantage was that they only had one ruler.
1st Video.
1. Sumerians developed written language because they needed to keep record of what was going on.
2nd Video.
1. Cuneiform is wedge shape.
2. They wrote with a tool called a stylus and wrote on clay tablets. They just let it dry on the sun so it can last.
3. They drew on the clay and also on the walls.
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