Mon., 12/2

Do Now—Exercise 23A: In column 1: Identify five large kingdoms / empires active during (or at some time between) 1500 B.C. – 1179 B.C. One is done for you! In column 2: Name a ruler from each kingdom you named. Possible answers (your rulers may be different): Kingdom Ruler Hatti Suppiluliuma Egypt Amenhotep III Mitanni Tushratta Assyria Assur-nadin-ahhe II Babylon Burnaburiash I Read In Focus: The Kingdom of Amurru: Annotate the text as we read it together. At five or more different points in the text, make a one sentence summary of key events / actions / decisions / details. Write these one-sentence annotations in the margins of the text, and number each (1, 2, 3, …). Likewise, your HW today is: Annotate The Kingdom of Amurru through p. 171, ¶ 4 (up to “Akhenaten had on his hands a dilemma…”). In the margins, include definitions of all words that are new to you and three single sentence summaries of the main events through p. 171, ¶ 4.