Homework due Monday: Read the handout called "Early Cities" - chapter six of Cynthia Stokes Brown's Big History - and prepare reading notes. This is a slightly longer reading and you may have project work to do over the weekend, so start early! Fight the urge to procrastinate.
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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