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A powerpoint presentation for the whiteboard whereby I got the children to write what they thought the commandments meant to them and also a worksheet is attached where I got the children to think of 10 rules to make their school a happy one. ...

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Primary Source - contains direct quotes from people regarding Phoenicians, etc.

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Primary Source - contains direct quotes from people regarding Phoenicians, etc.

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Phoenicians @ National Geographic Magazine

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The Greeks called them the Get the whole story in the pages of Get a taste of what awaits you in print from this compelling excerpt. "I am a Phoenician," says the young man, giving the name of a people who vanished from history 2,000 years ago.

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The Gilgamesh Trilogy by Ludmila Zeman - Book

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The Gilgamesh Trilogy by Ludmila Zeman - Book

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Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, in his loneliness and isolation becomes a cruel tyrant over the citizens of Uruk. To impress them forever he orders a great wall to be built, driving his people to exhaustion and despair so that they cry to the Sun God for help. In answer, another kind of man, Enkidu, is sent to earth to live among the animals and learn kindness from them. He falls in love with Shamhat, a singer from the temple, and he follows her back to Uruk. There, Enkidu, the "uncivilized" beast from the forest, shows the evil Gilgamesh through friendship what it means to be human.

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Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy)

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Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, in his loneliness and isolation becomes a cruel tyrant over the citizens of Uruk. To impress them forever he orders a great wall to be built, driving his people to exhaustion and despair so that they cry to the Sun God for help.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings | "This Way" Clip [HD] | 20th Century FOX

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Joel Edgerton's Ramses experiences earth-shaking action in this new clip from Exodus: Gods and Kings. Exodus: Gods and Kings: From acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Prometheus) comes the epic adventure "Exodus: Gods and Kings," the story of one man's daring courage to take on the might of an empire.

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Civilization, Division of Labor - Class Activity of making purple dye

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Civilization, Division of Labor - Class Activity of making purple dye

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Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. For more information on Harrington Harmonies' affiliates, please see my full disclosure policy.

5 Day Phoenician Study for Kids

This week I'll be sharing our 5 day Phoenician study with you. The focus will be on Phoenician art- especially their contributions to the textile trade, and of course, their famous purple dye. The week's line up looks like this:

1. Phoenician Study ( You are here.)

2. Timeline Figures, Books and Resources

3. Make Phoenician Purple Dye

4. Art Project- Phoenician Batiks Part 1

5. Art Project- Phoenician Batiks Part 2

When learning about the Phoenicians, most history texts focus on the fact that they were excellent sea farers and traders. The Phoenician alphabet is also of great importance. It's pretty easy to find hands on activities and crafts for kids on Phoenicia such as building ship models, but I want to concentrate on art as part of my Art Around the Ancient World series.

Phoenicia was a confederation of city states- modern day Lebanon. It's main cities were: Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon. It's trade routes and colonies reached extensively throughout the Mediterranean and included Carthage.

Check out an excellent interactive quiz for SOTW Chapter 15.

Phoenician Artisans

Turns out Phoenicia had many skilled artisans for just about every trade in the Ancient world- wood, glass, pottery, metals, ivory, stone, and of course, textiles! Their art was highly influenced by the several civilizations around them, primarily Egypt, Greece, and Assyria. And so, many of the artifacts we looked at would be hard to distinguish from much of the art produced by those civilizations.

Glass Blowing & Murex Dyes

The cedars of Lebanon were a major resource from which the Phoenicians produced furniture and built their ships. However, I want to focus on the one thing Phoenicians are named after: their production of purple Murex dyes. It's also important to mention the glass trade. Many Ancient civilizations were also making glass at this time, but it was the Phoenicians who crafted blown glass pieces with swirls of color in elegant designs. They produced both transparent glass and porcelain- like finishes. View an excellent collection of phoenician glass images.

How Did the Phoenicians produce their expensive purple dye?

How did they do it? They boiled thousands and thousands of these sea creatures in order to get just a small amount of purple dye for fine textiles. This meant it was very costly to do. Only the richest people could afford this purple colored clothing. Thus, purple was a color in the Ancient world associated with royalty.

Phoenician Unit Study Vocabulary:

Check out a full list of interactive vocabulary on Phoenicia from Quizlet.

Linked up with Trivium Tuesday and iHomeschool Network:

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5 Day Phoenician Study - Harrington Harmonies

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Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links. For more information on Harrington Harmonies' affiliates, please see my full disclosure policy. This week I'll be sharing our 5 day Phoenician study with you. The focus will be on Phoenician art- especially their contributions to the textile trade, and of course, their famous purple dye.

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Exodus Gods and Kings 2014 Frogs, Insects and Deseases

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Alphabet - Children’s book about tracing alphabet back to Phoenicians

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Alphabet - Children’s book about tracing alphabet back to Phoenicians

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Exodus Gods and Kings (2014)_Final Battle "Wave" | James R

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Ancient Mesopotamia Unit Plan Ashton Ettleman, Abigail Primm, Abbey Morris, Ryan Emmitt Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Week 1 Sumer civilization alphabet polytheism social hierarchy Sumer Development of city-states Epic of Gilgamesh Sumer civilization alphabet polytheism ...

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Sphero Edu is your hub to create, contribute, and learn with Sphero robots. Grab a bot, fire up your imagination, and get started.

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Polytheism, Monotheism - Primary source - Students and teachers will read excerpts from book and creating reading logs

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Polytheism, Monotheism - Primary source - Students and teachers will read excerpts from book and creating reading logs

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Class Activity - Acting out the role of either King Nebuchadnezzar, Abraham, or Moses

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Class Activity - Acting out the role of either King Nebuchadnezzar, Abraham, or Moses

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Matt Sparks

Title: Acting Out Historical Events

Introduction: It is somewhat difficult to remember all the happenings of certain events from throughout history, but it can be made much easier if you act out what you have learned about some of them.
Grade Level(s): Length:
1 ½ hrs.- more if possible
Performance Expectations:
The student will take part in research, with three to four other students, on a given historical event including the people, places, and cultures that were involved in it, and prepare a short skit to perform in front of the rest of the class.
Materials:
Library access for research, script writing materials, any costumes and props that the students chose to use
Procedures: Introduction:
Group students randomly in groups of four or five and give each one a historical event to research. "Today you will find information on the topic that I gave your group. By Friday you will have written a script for a short skit and performed it for us.
Development:
Allow students 30 to 40 minutes of library time to get enough material on their topics to write a 3 to 5 minute skit. Give them time during class to get together in their groups and work on writing their scripts. It may also be beneficial to give each group an example of a script for them to follow. Help the students with ideas to use for costumes and props if they want to use them. When they are finished writing their scripts, have each group make a final copy of it to turn in when they perform their skit. On the last day or two days of the week, allow each group 3 to 5 minutes to perform their skit in front of the rest of the class. It is not necessary to grade them on their ability to portray certain characters from history, instead look to see if they portray the event correctly according to histories standards.
Closure:
Record each group's skit on video tape, if possible, and show them back to the class to allow them to see their own performances. Have each group critique the others on an evaluation sheet that you use yourself to grade them with.
Assessment:
After all the skits have been performed, create a question sheet based on the material that all the groups covered and see how well the class as a whole performs on it. The teacher should also be sure to develop a checklist of criteria to look for in each skit, and make it a point to let the groups know that they will have to include certain information.
Adaptations/Extensions:
Allow extra help or time for any group that has difficulty due to having an event that may be difficult to portray in such a short skit. Make sure you have all coed groups and that each group involves women characters in their skit.
References:
3 rd grade teacher Mrs. Parker, Ridgeview Elementary, Warrensburg, MO

High School German teacher Frau Hyde, Kamiakin High School, Kennewick, WA

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This one involves Acting out Historical Events

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Matt Sparks Title: Acting Out Historical Events Introduction: It is somewhat difficult to remember all the happenings of certain events from throughout history, but it can be made much easier if you act out what you have learned about some of them.

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Children’s book - about Assyrians and Assyrian soldiers

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Children’s book - about Assyrians and Assyrian soldiers

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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier!: An Ancient Army You'd Rather Not Join

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Get ready... as a young farmer forced to join the Assyrian army, you quickly learn the seiges and battles are even worse than you thought. It's definitely not...

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Interactive Source for Assyrians - Quiz prior to teaching to assess prior knowledge of the Assyrians

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Interactive Source for Assyrians - Quiz prior to teaching to assess prior knowledge of the Assyrians

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The Assyrians lived in northern Mesopotamia, towards the mountains. They had their own language and their own lifestyle. Their religion was similar to that of Sumer and Babylon. They worshiped many of the same gods. They were well known traders. Their donkeys and caravans were known throughout the Mesopotamian area.

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Development of City-States - Primary Source

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Development of City-States - Primary Source

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The peoples of Sumer are among the earliest denizens of Mesopotamia. By about 4000 BCE, the Sumerians had organized themselves into several city-states that were spread throughout the southern part of the region. These city-states were independent of one another and were fully self-reliant centers, each surrounding a temple that was dedicated to god or goddess specific to that city-state. Each city-state was governed by a priest king.

Though they shared the Sumerian language as a form of communication, these city-states shared little else, and were in a constant state of warfare, often battling each other for control over water supplies and the fertile land. A typical Sumerian city was well fortified with thick, tall walls, which the king was responsible for maintaining, in hopes of deterring would-be attackers. Within a Sumerian city's walls were avenues that were used for religious processionals, and high, stepped temples know as ziggurats. Sumerian cities often had several ziggurats, each dedicated to a different god or goddess.

While the king of a Sumerian city lived in a luxurious palace, most of his people lived in very small thatched houses that were crowded together and separated by narrow alleyways. This was evidence of a distinct social system that was in place in Sumer. The highest class was the ruling class and priests. The only middle class to speak of was made up of merchants, scribes, and artisans. The majority if a city-state's people were considered the lower class, and that class was made up mostly of farmers. While these farmers could and did own and work their own land, they were often made to work government-owned land instead.

The Sumerians saw most of their wealth & success from trade.

Trade & Government

The Sumerians saw most of their wealth and success from trade. Artisans such as weavers and potters would sell their wares to traders who had traveled the rivers or the desert. The fertile land (the area was known as the Fertile Crescent) upon which they lived provided a successful agriculture industry as well.

The government of Sumer grew very complex as history progressed, and each city-state had begun to collect taxes and employed scribes to keep meticulous records. Each city-state had complicated irrigation systems, whose management the ruler oversaw. And the ruler also took on the role of chief priest, leading rites and procession in order to honor the gods.

Religion was very important to the Sumerians. They, like most cultures from ancient history, were polytheistic, believing in and worshipping several gods at once. They believed that the gods controlled everything, and that keeping them happy was of utmost importance. This, they believed, would keep their city-states strong and intact.

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The era of Sumerian dominance is divided into several historic periods, often characterized by the type of artisanship being produced at the time. The Ubaid period, for example, is marked by the use of distinctive, painted pottery in the region (starting around 5300 BCE). A shift to mass produced, unpainted pottery marks the beginning of the Uruk period (3900 BCE). The dynastic periods of Sumerian culture (2900 BCE) denote the beginning of large-scale architectural and cultural development, as well as government and religious organization. When the major Sumerian center of Ur was sacked around 2000 BCE, the Sumerian region shifted rule to the Amorites, who ruled until the rise of Hammurabi and the Babylonians around 1700 BCE

And thus marks the end of the supremacy of one of the world's earliest organized civilizations, a people whose development and innovations have chaped our own civilization, and some of whose concepts are in use even today.

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The peoples of Sumer are among the earliest denizens of Mesopotamia. By about 4000 BCE, the Sumerians had organized themselves into several city-states that were spread throughout the southern part of the region. These city-states were independent of one another and were fully self-reliant centers, each surrounding a temple that was dedicated to god or goddess specific to that city-state.

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This animation describes the history, the developments and other events that took place during the era of the Assyrian Civilisation. This is a product of Mexus Education Pvt. Ltd., an education innovations company based in Mumbai, India. http://www.mexuseducation.com, http://www.ikenstore.in

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The Invention of Writing - Sumerian Cuneiform

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cuneiform . Pictograms, or drawings representing actual things, were the basis for cuneiform writing. Early pictograms resembled the objects they represented, but through repeated use over time they began to look simpler, even abstract. These marks eventually became wedge-shaped ("cuneiform"), and could convey sounds or abstract concepts

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The formation of the Mediterranean Sea, Chapter One - from Journey to the depths of the Mediterranean Sea Ivan Saliba 3D Shaun Arrigo Planetsea Productions www.planetsea.net Malta

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When Marduk sent me to rule over men, to give the protection of right to the land, I did right and in righteousness brought about the well-being of the oppressed.

Below are situations Hammurabi faced. Decide what you think to be a fair way to deal with the problem. Then, click to see what Hammurabi declared. Would Marduk, the supreme god, be pleased with your decisions?

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What should be done to the carpenter who builds a house that falls and kills the owner?

What should be done about a wife who ignores her duties and belittles her husband?

What should be done when a "sister of god" (or nun) enters the wine shop for a drink?

What should be done if a son is adopted and then the birth-parents want him back?

What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts?

What should happen to a boy who slaps his father?

What happens to the wine seller who fails to arrest bad characters gathered at her shop?

How is the truth determined when one man brings an accusation against another?

What happens to the wi

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Phillip Martin's You Be the Judge of Hammurabi's Code

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When Marduk sent me to rule over men, to give the protection of right to the land, I did right and in righteousness brought about the well-being of the oppressed. Below are situations Hammurabi faced. Decide what you think to be a fair way to deal with the problem.