Essential Question: How does geography influence the way people live?
Guiding Questions:
1. Why did people settle in Mesopotamia?
2. What was life like in Sumer?
3. What ideas and inventions did the Sumerians pass on to other civilizations?
Essential Question: Why does conflict develop?
Guiding Questions:
1. How did Mesopotamia's first empires develop?
2. How did the Assyrians influence Southwest Asia?
3. Why was Babylon an important city in the ancient world?
Guiding Questions:
1. Why did people settle in Mesopotamia?
2. What was life like in Sumer?
3. What ideas and inventions did the Sumerians pass on to other civilizations?
Essential Question: Why does conflict develop?
Guiding Questions:
1. How did Mesopotamia's first empires develop?
2. How did the Assyrians influence Southwest Asia?
3. Why was Babylon an important city in the ancient world?