Mon., 8/12

Do Now—top of FN#3, p. 2

Copy the following verbatim (word for word) in your Field Notes No. 3:

Sumerian king list – Written on clay tablets after 2100 BC; probably the world’s oldest historical record.

11,000 BC – Ice spread down from the polar caps almost to the Mediterranean Sea. The melting of these ice caps, over the next few thousand years, changed the climate and topography of the Middle East.

Alulim – According to the Sumerian king list, Alulim was the first Sumerian king. The Sumerians believed that he had ruled over Eridu for almost 30,000 years.

Eridu – Known as the “Sumerian Eden.” A walled city in Mesopotamia which was, according to Sumerian accounts of history, ruled by the early Sumerian kings.

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FINISH READIING Ch. 1 (to the end of p. 9).

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Exercise 3B:

Answer the following in three or more complete sentences:

What produces civilization? How did hierarchies develop in the Fertile Crescent?

(A hierarchy is a system or organization in which people are ranked one above the other according to status or authority)

Exercise 3C:

In a dictionary, look up the definition of “bureaucracy” and two other words new to you from Ch. 1. After each word, write the number of the page on which the word appears and the correct definition of the word from the dictionary.

FIELD NOTES NO. 3 DUE TOMORROW (TUESDAY).