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blue=marah stable food supply, development of writing purple=karisa; new technologies and art forms in Mesopotamia orange=gisel red=jordan black=everyone

Theme ideas: Interview people from Mesopotamia family lines. Documentary. Students discussing books about Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh skit that involves Mesopotamia facts. I think we can have gisel and karissa be like news reporters. they wanna go back in time to the jurassic age. instead, the time machine breaks and goes beep beep and then it goes to the mesopotamian age. they have no other choice but to move on. they meet an old lady (marah) who has lived through a lot and talks about her life and how the entire mesopotamian thing works. then they meet a little rich boy (jordan) who talks about his life, too. they learn many things and stuff and then they must go homebefore they get caught and the old lady and the little rich boy keep it a secret that they came then gisel and karissa go back to modern time and od like: some major things we learned today are blah blah blah and the end!
 * Skit:**

I am Gisel Herrera along with Karisa Fulmer and we are going to take a trip to the Jurassic Age! Karisa: That's right! I'm sure all of you would like to know what it was like back before humans were even alive. We are about to step into our time machine... -footsteps- Gisel and Karisa: And we're in! Gisel: Now all we have to do is set the machine to go to the Jurassic Age... - beep beep sets time machine to Jurassic Age - Time Machine: Time machine set to Jurassic Age! Karisa: ...and we will let it whisk us off into a dangerous journey into the dinosaurs world! Let's get this baby going! - voooommm... BEEP BEEP BEEP! - Time Machine: Emergency alert! Emergency alert! Gisel: What's going on?! Karisa: It looks like the dinosaur chomped off the other end of the time machine all the way in the Jurassic Age! Looks like he'll have a few stomach aches... Oh look! We are going to the Mesopotamian Age! Well, THAT'S pretty unexpected! Gisel: Well folks, guess there are no dinosaur hunting games today!(aww) We'll be on an adventure to Mesopotamia, the birth and cradle of civilization!(YAY) I always wanted to know how it all began! Karisa- Good thing Mesopotamia was where we were going to go next so at least we are prepared :) we will continue after this short commercial COMMERCIAL 1

** Commercial: 1 ** Marah: Have you ever needed to know what time it is or how long something is taking?

Jordan: All the time! Karisa: It's so hard to know the time or anything like that around here. ** Gisel: Then you might just need a water powered clock ** Karisa: A water powered clock? what is that? Marah This device help you keet track of time!

Jordan: How does it work? ** Gisel: Well with water ofcourse ** Marah: It is measured with drops of water.

Jordan: That is just what i need. ** Gisel: Get it now in stores near zigurrat now! **

and now back to the show!

Gisel- lets start at the Ziggurat which seems to be the biggest thing in this place Karisa- That's because it's the urban focus Gisel! Gisel- Wow there sure is a lot of people here, we should ask them some questions

Karisa: Why hello there Ma'am, can you help us with our... umm... knowledge on Mesopotamia? Marah: Why sure. One thing I can tell you is I hate this rotten place. My husband left me and gave me absolutely NOTHING for 15 years of faithfulness due to the judge's jurisdiction. Gisel: Well that's HORRIBLE! You have a court systems? Marah: We have ever since King Hammurabi conquered my gorgeous city-state of Sumer. His army defeated us and made us look like we didn't even put up a fight. Gisel : That's horrible im so sorry. How did that happen? Marah: All i saw were these huge formation of soldiers holding shields, and carrying spears. Karisa: What did they do? Marah: They tore down the walls of the city, with horses and weapons made of iron! They had camped outside the city the night before. We fought but we were defeated and our city-state had been conquered. Gisel:So what's ziggurat? What do you use it for? Marah: It's our temple! We worship Marduk as our main god now, but we have over 3,000 gods. We believe that we are their servants and that they created us out of mud. Karisa: How do you remember all of them?! Marah: The same way you remember your family... Gisel: So do you guys offer anything to them as a gift? I heard that's what they did back then. Marah: Why yes, we present them the food then we eat it as though we are eating their blessing. Karisa: Speaking of food, what do you guys even eat? Marah: Oh, we eat many delicacies such as barley, sesame, flax, fruit trees, wheat, dates, and many other vegetables. Karisa: But wasn't it VERY dry in Mesopotamia? How would you even grow your crops? Marah: Don't think us Mesopotamians are THAT stupid. Every year the rivers would flood. After they flooded and went down, they leave soil that are levees. We build them higher to hold the flood back all the time. When we need water, we poke holes into the levees, let the water travel through channels then canals, and it reaches our soil! Now isn't that smart? Gisel: Sure is for people back then! Marah: The plow pulling the oxen is a major breakthrough in technology. It's a favorable tool used by farmers to make work easier by turning the soil. Karisa: It's not a surprise for our time, we have electronic plows that don't need oxen! Marah: What in Marduk's name is an electronic plow? Gisel: Nothing, it'll come after a few thousand years. Don't worry! Tell us about your life, what is the economic structure? What rules are there? Marah: My life? I'm glad you asked! The ziggurat contains the main god of the city-state and the king. The houses located around the ziggurat are the upper class houses. There live the wealthy priests and merchants. Behind them are the middle class houses in which the government officials, shopkeepers, and artisans settled in. Last are the lower class residents behind the middle class. They contain the fishers, farmers, and unskilled workers. I live in the upper class because my husband was a merchant. Karisa: Do they treat you with more respect than lower class residents such as in the court? Marah: When it comes to punishments, everybody gets the same no matter what class they're in unless you are a slave. Karisa: What time it is? Marah: It's 3:07. We should head back to my house. Many passerbys are a little suspicious of you two! Gisel: Hey... how did you know the time? Marah: ahahaha, I guess I forgot to mention that we also invented the time based on 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute. Is your modern civilization still using this method? Karisa: Why yes! Marah: Good. I'm not talking nonsense anymore! We use water to measure it, though. I am guessing you use "electronic" watches. Oh look! It is Dudu! I must introduce you to my twelve-year old grandson, Dudu. we will continue after this commercial COMMERCIAL 2

** Commercial- 2 ** Karisa: How long does it take you to plant your crops? Marah: Too long it takes almost an entire day! Jordan: Would you like to make it easier? ** Gisel: I would love to if i could ** Karisa: Then the ox plow is for you! Marah: Ox plow? Jordan: Yes an ox plow! Karisa: Ox plows allow you to break up the soil! Jordan: Making it easier to plant your crops. ** Gisel: That must be the invention of the century! ** Karisa: Get it now!

now back to the show! Jordan: Hi! I'm Dudu! Nice to meet you! Gisel: Good afternoon. I'm Gisel... Karisa:..and I'm Karisa! Dudu, would you please tell us about your life? What do you do as a child? Jordan: I live with my parents and I sometimes visit my grandmother. I am a wealthy boy so I must attend classes to learn how to write at the "tablet houses." Gisel: What in the world are "tablet houses" and where are they located? Jordan: "Tablet houses" are the rooms that the rich boys must visit to learn how to write in cuneiform. Cuneiform is very difficult but it is special because it is the first written language in history! I am very proud of our nation! Karisa: So, you go to 'tablet houses" as your school and you learn to write in cuneiform? That is not bad! At least you don't have to learn about language arts and math! Say, what do you even write one? You barely have any trees to make paper! Jordan: I do not know what you speak of, this thing called paper? Anyhow, we write on tablets made of mud, or clay, and we use wedge shaped styluses.  Gisel: Do you like graduate or something once you have successfully learned it all? I wonder what their school diplomas look like here!  Karisa: I bet it would be pretty hard to read by just one look at it!  Jordan: Once you have learned well in school, you get to work as a scribe, or a professional writer, to write important documents for important people. This job is exceptionally challenging.  Gisel: What do the poor boys do if they cannot go to learn how to write?  Jordan: They usually stay home to learn how to work with their parents' job. Karisa: Aww! They don't get the opportunity to learn. I'd trade places with them any day instead of going to MY school! Gisel: Well thank you Dudu for your contributions in giving us more information on Mesopotamia! Karisa: Now it's time to go back home! Let's go to the time machine! Time Machine: was your journey to mesopotamia successful? Gisel: yes it was! Time machine: wonderful. now traveling back to modern day 2010. step out of time machine footsteps *TV switches off noise* Karisa: So I hope you all enjoyed our documentary on Ancient Mesopotamia. Gisel: Yes, we had an absolutely marvelous time meeting those FABULOUS people. Karisa: And we learned a whole heck of a lot from them! Gisel: These questions may have never been answered if we hadn't scoped out the truth! Karisa: So, you've seen all you can see here! Both: We hope to see you next time here on "The K and G Show"!

O-M-GOSH! This is AMAZING Marah! I'm so sorry I didn't get to it today, I like just got back like an hour ago n just finished my homework NOW - 10:41 at night! But you guys did an absolutely SPECTACULARRR job! I did some of the script in Independent Studies today but still, this is great! Marah gets most of the credit.(: I just made the ending of the documentary cuz we needed a closing ha(: actually i was gonna finish the ending but i kno how toadd ur part into thethingi was about to do.. well im gonnado it rite now...

ppl settled in meso at 3500 bc, their area = sumer. civilization earliest known. ill do __stable food supply__::: complex society, thrive onlvy if members have food. complex irrigation system help stable food supply. networks of canals, dams, reservoirs to provide the crops regular supply of water. plow=tool for turning soil 2 prepare 4 planting crops. b4 its invented, used pointed sticks and animal horns 2 poke holes in earth plant seeds in holes. very slow method. made first plow out of wood.end was bent 4 cutting in2 fthe ground to turn soil.pushed and pulled plow on ground themselves or oxen to pull it.
 * Facts:**
 * Crops- **
 * ** barley-main **
 * ** sesame **
 * ** flax **
 * ** fruit trees **
 * ** wheat **
 * ** date palms **
 * ** other kinds of vegetables **
 * Here is a pic i found its kinda smalll tho **

__developement of writing__:::: wriittten language - cuneiform 2400 bce. earliest- shown used to record info about trade. first, 2000 symbols 4 ideas & sounds able to reduce to 700 l8r. based on earlier simpler form of writing used 4 pictographs. symbols stand for real objects. scribes draw symbols with sharpened reed on wet clay. clay dries=marks become permanent

__urban focus__::: ziggurat was main part of town. people came for religious purposes and prayed there. trade took place there. celebrations, feasts, parties, etc. took place there. ummm.... the gods and stuff "believed to be there" so they go and worship them there. priests and the judges are there, too. they teach near the ziggurat.

social structure:::king and "gods" lived in the ziggurat. upper class = ﻿ ** ﻿merchants and priests ** inner most circle around the ziggurat. two floored houses with balconies **﻿middle class-﻿ gov. officials, storekee﻿pers, artisans, skilled workers ﻿lived in one story homes, around open courtyards** **lower class- farmers, and unskilled workers**

They also created the first kind of writing called cuneiform (which we all know but whatever) haha Mesopotamians formed villages centered on farming and domesticated wild animals for their own uses. They also learned how to plant crops. Sumerians learned how to control Twin Rivers with levees and canals. Made buildings out of sun-dried mud brick. Ziggurats were usually decorated with colorful glazed fired bricks. Reed pen(stylus) used for writing in cuneiform to keep records as wealth increased. Wrote on clay tablets dried in sun or fired in kiln to make permanent. Schools for a select amount of wealthy boys called ebuddas or tablet houses. Students taught reading, writing, arithmetic and disciplined. Example: if a mistake was made on a clay tablet could get a beating. Once 12-years of schooling was over student was officially a scribe. Sumerians used cylinder seals - carved out of stone and used for identification as would be a signature today to put on clay tablets. Hammurabi made the first code of law in known existence. Created glass, the water clock, twelve-month calendar on lunar cycles, wheel, plow, and the sailboat.

ds and Godesses- ** [] website i used**
 * Mesopotamian people worshiped gods and godesses **
 * There was a god for every uknown natural force such as sun, river, moon **
 * Each city-state had their own main god or godess that protected it **
 * Ziggurats were built for gods to live in **


 * Rituals- **
 * The people would serve their god a big meal every day as an offering **
 * These are some of trhe things that they would serve **


 * ** 12 vessels of wine 2 vessels of milk **
 * ** 108 vessels of beer **
 * ** 243 loaves of bread **
 * ** 29 bushels of dates **
 * ** 21 rams **
 * ** 2 bulls **
 * ** l bullock **
 * ** 8 lambs **
 * ** 60 birds **
 * ** 3 cranes **
 * ** 7 ducks **
 * ** 4 wild boars **
 * ** 3 ostrich eggs **
 * ** 3 duck eggs **

**[] website used**

**More facts-** **stands fo "Mountain of God" or "Hill of Heaven"**
 * there are more than 3000 gods **
 * at first there were only male god **
 * female gods came in later **
 * believed that gods created humans out of mud to be servants **
 * people believed that they lived to serve gods **
 * unhappy gods would create unhappy lives **
 * priest knew the will of god making them powerful **
 * priests were at first kings **

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new political and military structures The Akkadian Empire was ruled by king Sargon. He was thier first ruler. He was a skilled genral and a strong king. His empire was created by powerful military strategies. He first assembled a large army. His soilders where taught to fight in tight formations. The soliders in the fron tof the formation stood and held shields. The soilders behind them would stand and carry spears. The soilders carrying the spears would extend the spears between the shields. When Sargon defeated the king of Uruk he controled all of Mesopotamia. Sargon used smart political statigies to control his empire. To make it harder for the people to reble he destroyed the walls of the cities. The Assyrain Empire lived in Mesopotamia for a long time. They rose to power toward 900 B.C.E. They trained thier army and began to expand their territorty. They used horses and wepons made of iron to use in battle. They were extremly good in siege warfare. A siege is when an army camps outside city and will keep atcking the city over and over until it falls. The Assyrain's were the first use battering rams. They were used for punching holes through walls. They were long poles on wheels. The Assyrain's also built moveable towers that could bwe rolled up to walls. The soliders used the towers to climb over walls. The Assyrian's were sometimes ruthless. The Assyrains were ruled by powerful kings. They belived thatkings were special beings.


 * Chatroom:**
 * hey guys i think we should make me as an old lady from meso and i can like talk abou tmy life. that would be funny wouldnt i and itll be cool!!! lets look for facts **
 * hey guys who is gonna get what in the research? i did stable food supply and developemnt and probably urban focus but ill add on l8r. what ru guys doing?? **


 * Karisa: **
 * I'm doing new technologies in art and etc. I found out that they created sickles, hoes, and plows. Still gathering more information, but I wanna make the script! haha **


 * u kno what would be a cool idea for our script? we can have karissa and gisel as newsreporters in a time machine and then the time machine has some kind of an emergency with the alarm going off like BEEP BEEP BEEP!!! and then instead of going to the Jurassic Age, we go to the mesopotamian age and meet an old lady (marah) and maybe like a rich little kid (jordan) then we talk about our lives. wouldnt that be cool?? **
 * I will do the sound and music in garage . **


 * ok great guys! we gotta add more facts and pix tho. @karissa, put ur facts under the facts thingie instaed of the chat bc this is the chat. wait ill do it myself lol. so guys what do you think the script should be? ill look 4 more pix :D **
 * I will also do the millatary part **


 * Hi All - This is Mr. Krause. Looks like you have been very busy. Love the maps and pictures! Looking forward to seeing the "documentary" -- Good stuff!!! **


 * Thanks Mr. Krause! -Karisa**
 * I organized this a little i think that we might need more pictures tho and we need commercials!!!**


 * Pictures:**
 * [] **
 * I found this picture of the ziggurat for relion structure- **
 * http://tinyurl.com/23odn7t **


 * What do you guys think? **


 * Nice picture Gizzle!(: **


 * nice pic gizzel **
 * i found this pic for meso map: **




 * http://tiny.cc/u3tud**


 * http://tinyurl.com/2ak6mbu**
 * http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-photos-moon-worship-archealolgy.htm**


 * this is another pic i found and this one actually shows more activity **


 * That looks really realistic! hahaa **


 * here's another pic **
 * []**


 * http://tiny.cc/93jm1**


 * ^^^^^^^^^ this is for the part where u guys are like ohh lets visit the jurassic age but then u visit meso instead kay? **


 * http://tiny.cc/qoc3v**


 * ^^^^^^^^^^ mesopotamian gods **


 * http://tiny.cc/qdh32**
 * gilgamesh and enkidu **




 * http://tiny.cc/vvz53**
 * cuneiform i think it might be a kids tablet im not sure though ﻿ **
 * i cant tell either we might want to use another picture that's more clear **


 * I also found seperate pictures of gods and godesses **


 * Sun god- Shamash **


 * [] **


 * Moon God- Sin **


 * [[image:http://www.reformation.org/babylonian-moon-god.jpg width="251" height="339"]] **
 * [] **


 * God of rain- Enki/Ea **
 * [[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MryQii-dvu8/SgBJ_km7u_I/AAAAAAAAIi4/O487hA1N52A/s400/Copia_de_Enki.jpg width="282" height="341"]] **
 * [] **


 * Goddess of love and war- Ishtar **
 * [[image:http://s2.hubimg.com/u/1513021_f520.jpg width="523" height="359"]] **
 * [] **
 * nice job gizel but i think we should do more images on based on what we are going to say/our script. but all the images are usable which is great! :) we reall need to start on the script tho ﻿ **
 * nice job gizel but i think we should do more images on based on what we are going to say/our script. but all the images are usable which is great! :) we reall need to start on the script tho ﻿ **


 * Marduk- **
 * [] **


 * Sesame **


 * [[image:http://test1.icrisat.org/vasat1/learning_resources/drought/html/m4l2/resources/coping_with_drought/images/module4/7.jpg]] **
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 * Barley- **
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 * Flax- **
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 * Fruit trees **




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 * Wheat- **
 * dates-**
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