6th grade World History I chapter 2 notes
What was Mesopotamia?
What is the Fertile Cresent?
What was Uruk?
What was Sumeria?
What is a City-State?
What is a Ziggurat?
What was Cuniform?
What is a Language Isolate?
What is Writing?
What were Sumerian City-States?
What was the most likely reason for early notation and writing to develop?
The first forms of written notation were _ which were impressed upon clay tablets.
Lesson 1
Mesopotamia: A region in Western Asia. Its name means “Land between the rivers.”
Lesson 2
Fertile Cresent: A fertile region in Northern Africa and Southwest Asia.
Lesson 3
Uruk: A city that started to develop around 4000 BCE, it was one of the first cities in the world.
Lesson 4
Sumeria: Sumeria is also known as Sumer, it is one of the earliest known civilizations near Mesopotamia.
City-State: A city and its surrounding places that are in control of one leader or government.
Ziggurat: A multi-purpose building, one example was: it was the main temple for a city god.
Cuniform: The written language of the Sumerians.
Language Isolate: Not related to another language.
Lesson 5
Writing: The development of symbols to define words did not start until about 5000 years ago in 3300 BCE
Writing was used to keep track of taxes and stores.
Answer: Writing likely developed as a way for humans and early cities to keep track of food stores.
Answer: The first forms of written notation were clay and stone counting tokens which were impressed upon clay tablets in order to keep records of stores.
Lesson 6
Sumerian City-States: City-States made by the Sumerians, they first began in Mesopotamia.
City-States were very large cities that were like their own nation.