esquema Mesopotamia

Unit 9 and 10

UNIT 9

1. Periods in History. A timeline of the Pre-history:

1. Write the three different prehistorical periods and find their place on the timeline. (With dates)
2. What are the different historical events that begin each stage of prehistory? Find their place on the timeline.
3. Think about the following historical events and place them on the timeline: 1. Appearance of the first villages made with clay. / 2. All humans’ beings had a nomadic lifestyle 3. Development of pottery and basketry / 4. Invention of the wheel / 5. Megalithic monuments / 6. Appearance of tools as mortars, sickles, hoes, etc. / 7. Appearance of swords, etc. / 8. Development of the plough. / 9. Domestication of animals / 10. Discovery of fire.

2. Match the characteristics to the hominids.

HOMINIDS	CHARACTERISTICS
Austrolopithecus	Discovery of fire.
Homo habilis	They lived in Europe and disappeared at the end of the glacial period.
Homo erectus	They are native to Africa but spread throughout all the continents
Homo neanderthalensis	They used tools but did not make them.
	He made the earliest forms of art.
Homo sapiens	First hominid to make tools

3. Main characteristics of lifestyle during the Paleolithic Age.
4. Activity number 3 (Page 92).
5. Which important changes happened during the Neolithic?
6. Relate the map on page 94 with the map on page 102. Point out the similarities and the differences.
7. Name the main four ancient rivers civilizations and explain their main characteristics.
8. Work with the table.

1. Place in the table and in chronological order the different Mesopotamian periods: Neo-Babylonian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian.
2. Match them with the characteristics or historical events.

Mesopotamian Period	Characteristics or historical events
1.	Finish with the conquest of the Persian.
	A people of shepherds who were warlike
2.	Appearance of the Hammurabi Code.
	Construction of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
3.	They lived in the South of Mesopotamia.
	Assurbanipal made an empire from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
4.	They lived in the mountains of North of Mesopotamia
	The appearance of writing.
5.	King Sargon conquered Sumer and unified the central and the low Mesopotamia
	The capital city was in the center of Mesopotamia, close to Babylon.

9. Work with a social pyramid.

1. Divide the pyramid into six levels and place the following groups of people in their correct level: nobles and priests, scribes and army officers, artisans, merchants and farmers, slaves, pharaoh and his family.

10. Define the following concepts:

• The Rosetta stone (What it is? Why has it been so important in History?
• Hebrews (Localization, and economy and religion):
• Cretans: (Localization and economy):
• Phoenicians (Localization and economy):
• Papyrus and tablets of clay (Who used them? for what reason?)

11. Identify the Mesopotamian architecture and the Egyptian architecture and talk about its differences and similarities.

12. Explain how the environmental conditions influenced in the historical development of Egypt. Which two independent kingdoms were united in 3100 BC by King Menes?
    
    
13. Identify each piece of art with its period. Describe the piece of art, discipline, (if it is sculpture, explain if it is a relief or a free standing sculpture) material used, theme.