Ancient Sumer

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PLOUGH, GRAIN, CITY – AT THE ZIGGURAT – DIVIDING THE CIRCLE – RECORDING HISTORY

ANCIENT SUMER – 55 pages: Two weeks of detailed lesson plans with mentoring comments, resources, ancient history presentation notes, stories and source texts are illustrated with a blackboard drawing, the children’s compositions and bookwork, a base-60 worksheet and the Main Lesson Review block test.

The free supplement of poems and songs is an editable template which includes sheet music, footnotes and attributions.

This chapter shows how the Mesopotamian inventions and developments in writing, arithmetic, astronomy, agriculture and technology underpin our life today. Their division of the circle, the base-60 number system, the first named author in history, the first code of law, the first postal system … Even the concept of school with lesson plans and a timetable dates from this epoch. And the myth of Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld is just as fascinating as the story of how a British officer made it his life’s work to decipher the cuneiform script and, in succeeding, opened up a window into the mind of people from a distant past.

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