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MESOPOTAMIAN ACHIEVEMENTS
DO NOW Take out your Homework and Practice Book
and Vocabulary Sheets
List some of the advances you have learned about agriculture. How did these advances help farmers?
AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQUES Innovations: 1. Irrigation (led to surpluses) 2. Bronze-tipped plows 3. Funnels for seeding 4. Shade planting 5. Almanacs
IRRIGATION
BRONZE-TIPPED PLOW
FUNNELS FOR SEEDING
SHADE PLANTING
ALMANAC
MEASUREMENTS Larger farms: farmers and governments
wanted to track things Iku means “the field” Equaled about 37,600 square feet Used to measure land Developed standard units of weight and
volume Carefully planned number system based on
the number 60 Measured time: hours, minutes, seconds 360 day calendar
BUILDING Most lived in simple flat-roofed, mud brick
houses Tallest and largest building was the ziggurat Towns developed around the ziggurat
ZIGGURAT
ACTIVITY Directions: Open to pages 110 and 111 of your textbook.
Copy the picture of the ziggurat and surrounding area. Label the 4 points on your drawing.
1. Builders constructed a ziggurat in layers, each one smaller than the one below it.
2. At the top of a ziggurat stood a shrine to a god.3. Trees and bushes may have covered the
ziggurat.4. Smaller buildings stood along the outside wall
of the ziggurat
WRAP UP What innovations in farming did the
Sumerians create?
What kind of measurements did they create?
What is the significance of the ziggurat? What made the architecture significant?