"I am a Sumerian" 
Poster Project
 
Create a poster making believe that you are a Sumerian from somewhere between 3500 BC and 1700 BC.

 
Mesopotamian civilizations were from long ago. Mesopotamia is Greek for "between the rivers." The southern portion of Mesopotamia was called Sumer. The Sumerian civilization began around 3500 BC and  was destroyed by foreign invaders around 1700 BC. 

Image Source: Mr. Dowling's Digital Passport. Mesopotamia Map. Online image. Available <www.mrdowling.com/ 603mesopotamia.html> Accessed 16 September 2003.
  Many people settled along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This area was known as "The Fertile Crescent." The area is now known as "The Middle East."

World Map Image Courtesy of Nations Online Project. Online. Available: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/small_continents_map.htm
 

 

 

 

 Use the the 
Ancient Mesopotamia page 
and the 
British Museum's Mesopotamia site 
and the
Life in Mesopotamia page
to collect at least 10 facts about Sumerian life. Create a poster as if you are a Sumerian citizen. At the top, the poster will start something like this

 

Make sure that you identify the year that you are living in. Talk about who is ruling, inventions, etc. Convince the reader that you know about what it was like to live back then.

At the bottom of your poster you must cite your sources of information. Here are the citations:
Information and Image Sources: 
Snyder, Marsha. "Mesopotamia." Online.  <http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/meso/mesopotamia.html> 26 September 2005.

The British Museum. "Mesopotamia." Online. <http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html> 26 September 2005


Use COPY and PASTE to put the citations at the bottom of your poster.

Here is a link to some graphics. This link is only active during the week that we complete this project.

If you use graphics, they must be properly cited. Each image citation tells the reader where you found the image and who it was created by. Your poster will lose points if any graphic does not have a citation. 

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