Online Fieldtrip:
Mesopotamia
The Cradle of Civilization
Use the following online fieldtrip to help students learn about Mesopotamia.
Fieldtrip is Below...
Use timeline below to answer the following question.1. Name the groups that dominate Mesopotamia in the following years; 2750BC, 1700BC, 1500BC, 700BC, 539BC.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/TIMELINE.HTM
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2. Who conquered the Sumerian city-states in 2340 BC and created the Akkadian empire?
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/AKKAD.HTM
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3. Name the Babylonian king that assembled one of the first collection of laws.
http://encarta.msn.com/find/concise.asp?ti=05b22000
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4. Find and copy down two laws that you think would be good in today's society.
5. Find and copy down two laws that you think would be bad in today's society.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
Using the website listed below, read the following three questions and write the answer according to Hammurabi's law. Then write how the situation would be dealt with in America today.
6. What should be done to the carpenter who builds a house that falls and kills the owner?
7. What should be done if a son is adopted and then the birth-parents want him back?
8. What should happen to a boy who slaps his father?
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM
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9. Choose three of the listed topics, follow your selected links, and give a fact for each. Make sure to write down the topics you chose.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5178/peop.html
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10. On which river were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built?
11. Which King was said to have built this wonder for his wife?
http://wonderclub.com/WorldWonders/GardenHistory.html
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12. List three cities located within the Assyrian Empire.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/maptext_n2/assyria.html
