topics for Thursday, Sept 11th

Please use these websites to explore some topic related chapter 2 in your history book. You also need to turn in the handout I'm giving you about the websites.

Highly Recommended 

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

short animations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EPqobSsD8  Turning Points in History

Other Topics

Cuneiform
--- http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/literature/
--- http://www.paleoaliens.com/event/babylonian/

City States

--- http://ghn.globalheritagefund.org/?id=1253  Explore the ruins of Ur
--- http://www.ancient.eu/ur/
--- http://www.penn.museum/sites/iraq/?page_id=48

Ziggurat

--- ziggurat informationl
--- http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ziggurats.php

Sargon

--- http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/nemonarchs/g/Sargon.htm
--- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.asp
--- http://www.history4kids.co/2013/02/sargon-conqueror.html

Gilgamesh

---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGhEu9elnA 10 minutes long (see me for headphones)

Utnapishtim

--- http://www.lifepaths360.com/index.php/mesopotamian-heroes-utnapishtim-7365/  Flood story