Mesopotamia: The First Cities: Social Studies Unit 2, Grade 6 (Letters & Devotion)

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Mesopotamia: The First Cities is Unit 2 of The Ancient World: Peoples, Power, and Place (Grade 6), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 63 pages.

• The relationship between river-valley geography and the location of Sumerian cities
• The relationship between agricultural surplus and job specialization in Sumer
• The connection between surplus, priesthood, and organized religion in Sumer
• The original administrative purpose of cuneiform writing versus a modern analog
• The social hierarchy embedded in specific laws of Hammurabi’s Code
• Whose interests a written rule protects, as a transferable pattern of reasoning
• The fairness of Hammurabi’s Code judged against its own historical context
• The general conditions under which a city-state expands into an empire
• Origin, purpose, and audience of a Mesopotamian primary source
• Named Sumerian inventions and structures

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.