First major graded assignment!

Group thing

Research --> presentation for 15 minutes (not more)

With Linda and Wiggo

Topic: Civilization

-Living in cities <--> living cities-

7 Innovative civilizations  - these are cities that just appear, they built up there civilization from the start by themselves.

• Mesopotamia  - Sumerians (3,300 B.C.E)

• Egypt -

• Indus - Harrapa (a river valley in India)

• China - Xia, Shang (Huang He, gula floden)

• Mesoamerica - Mayans (roughly Mexico today)
• Andean - Incas

• Niger - Jenne Jeno

1. Outline
2. Characteristics (maybe a style of dress, stile of art, something that is unique to your civilization) AMANDA
3. Significant event (pyramids or some kind of construction, war/battle for example)

4. Significant person AMANDA

5. Primary source (a written document from the time, produced during that time)

6. City plan (how the buildings are arranged in the city, what building is in the middle of the city? Which is the most important?)

7. Theories!

MESOPOTAMIA  

End the presentation with the conquer of

Written source (extract on SharePoint) --> Epic of Gilgamesh

A religious temple, a residence, the goddess Ishtar lived there.

Sources:

Timeline: http://www.ancient.eu.com/Mesopotamia/

Mixed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cultures/mesopotamia_gallery_03.shtml

Theories:

Paul Wheatley

Cosmo-magical city theory - come together at one point… due to what?

• Water

• Food

Religious significance, something unusual like a really old tree or an odd structure of a rock, or a story of that it´s connected to that place. Once people start farming these places, thing are going to occur and this is the way that cities are formed around these places. Religious building in the middle of the city. The once that live there are like the religious leaders of the city.

Lewis Mumford

Criticisms of urbanization - once you live in cities, you get war.

• Urbanization leads to "continuous warfare"
• City states inevitably fight over (?)

Karl Marx

Criticisms of urbanization  - within the city, class struggle. The people got divided by their professions.

Gerda Lerner

Criticisms of urbanization  

There is evidence for this. The Venuses. She claims that women had a power within the cities. But cities lead to conflict and hen women loose power since men are better of fighting then women.