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Curated OER

Museum Education: Kids' Corner

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive examination of artifacts from Mesopotamia. Find out about early writing, the code of Hammurabi, and cylinder seals.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Ancient History Sourcebook: Timeline of Akkadia

For Students 9th - 10th
Timeline of Akkadia
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Other

Stony Brook University: Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival at Nineveh

For Students 9th - 10th
This book by John Malcolm Russell, a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was published in 1991. Written from the perspective of an art historian, he presents his ideas about the function of the Palace without Rival by...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Counting in Babylon

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the number system used by the ancient Babylonians. Examples are provided for various mathematical operations based on the number 60 (our number system is based on the number ten).
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Assyrians

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Assyrians were inhabitants of one the world's earliest civilizations, Mesopotamia, which began to emerge around 3500 B . C . The Assyrians invented the world's first written language and the 360-degree circle, established...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Ur

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from provides a detailed overview of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur. Content includes a focus on the history of this city and its archaeology. Links are also provided for additional information.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk

For Students 9th - 10th
Uruk (modern Warka in Iraq)is where city life began more than five thousand years ago. In the center of the city, the greatest monument was the Anu Ziggurat on which the White Temple was built. View pictures and read descriptions of this...
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Other

All Mesopotamia: One Man's Green Thumb and Thirst for Power

For Students 9th - 10th
The life, achievements, and military conquests of Sennacherib are outlined. Includes descriptive details of his famous palace.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: History of Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
Dr. Math tackles the question of man's first use of numbers by relating the work of Denise Schmandt-Bessarat and her studies of "'tokens' found all over the Middle East.
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Other

Mesopotamian Civilization: The Land Between the Rivers

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article on the Sumerians provides information on Sumerian writing, myth, education, city-states, and artifacts. Part of a larger world history website, "The Land Between the Rivers," is an excellent introduction to the...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Global Gateway: Cuneiform Tablets

For Students 9th - 10th
View clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient Sumerian pictographic writing system known as cuneiform and read about the ancient writing system.
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Sacred Text Archive

Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A 1902 translation of the Enuma Elish, the ancient Mesopotamian creation myth.
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Luther Seminary

Bible Tutor: Assyria

For Students 9th - 10th
Bible Tutor offers a brief description of the location and history of Assyria. Inlcudes image and map.
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Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: Sumer, 3500 1900 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
Survey of ancient Sumer that describes Mesopotamian civilization's way of life, cities, religion, technology, and so on.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Early Peoples

For Students 3rd - 5th
Regents prep site giving the history of the Paleolithic Period and Early River Civilizations. Includes pictures and map.
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Other

Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Lost Forever

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow accompanied by a description of archaeological discoveries from the ancient Assyrian cities of Nineveh and Nimrud in Iraq, both of which were severely damaged by the Islamic State in March 2015. The slideshow includes images...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Ancient Civilizations and the Modern World

For Teachers 6th
Learn how ancient civilzations developed based on the local physical features and how the boundaries of early civilizations compare to their modern counterparts.
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Other

Aina: A Brief History of Assyrians: Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief article describing the geography of Assyria and its extent across the Middle East. Click on the word Assyria to take you to a map the region.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Life in Old Babylonia: The Importance of Trade

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson plan, learners will consider "Life in Old Babylonia: The Importance of Trade." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographica.com: Adventure in Argentina

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Geographica.com contains information on a variety of parks in Argentina. A description of each follows the name of the park.
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Other

Alchetron Technologies: Sennacherib: Administration and Building Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lengthy article on Sennacherib and this particular section has a detailed description of how he planned and constructed the city of Nineveh and his famous Palace Without Rival.
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Other

Livius: Nineveh, Palace of Senacherib

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of high-resolution photos of carvings from the walls of the Palace of Sennacherib, as well as a drawing of a map.
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Curated OER

Museum Education: Kids' Corner

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive examination of artifacts from Mesopotamia. Find out about early writing, the code of Hammurabi, and cylinder seals.
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Curated OER

Museum Education: Kids' Corner

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive examination of artifacts from Mesopotamia. Find out about early writing, the code of Hammurabi, and cylinder seals.

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