Homework due Thursday: Read the two-page handout (handed out on Wednesday) on different aspects of civilizations (job specialization, public works, etc.). On the back of the sheet, you will find a list of traits that are commonly thought to be indicators that a society is a "civilization." As reading notes, please rewrite this list on a separate sheet of lined paper, give a definition in your own words of each trait as well as two or three examples of each trait.
No Do Now today. We will be working on our civilizations/GRAPES projects in class on Thursday and Friday; presentations will begin on Monday.
Below is the video on Sumer and Ancient Mesopotamia that we watched (in part) at the beginning of class today. Remember that Mesopotamia - a word meaning "between the rivers" (the Tigris and Euphrates) - is a term for the broader region in which Sumer, the world's first known civilization, was located. The semicircle of fertile land connecting the Nile river basin (ancient and modern Egypt) and the Tigris and Euphrates river basin (ancient Sumer and other civilizations, modern-day Iraq and surrounding countries) is known as the Fertile Crescent.
See you tomorrow,
--Mr. McCarl
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