This week students will be learning about sixteen inventions that came from Mesopotamia. They will also be analyzing and debating them before determining what invention they feel is the most significant historically as well as in their lives today. So, what will be the top invention? Check back for updates from each class!
- the wheel
- board games
- laws
- literature
- the plow
- the ziggurat
- lunar calendar
- empire
- writing
- cylinder seal
- base-60 number system
- musical instruments
- irrigation
- bronze
- the sailboat
- the chariot