Mesopotamia



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__//**Mesopotamia Unit**//__ Articles and text reading to expand our understanding of Mesopotamia. (Research packet) Discuss Law of Hammurabi compared to laws of today. Harsh Justice interpretive reading.

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State standards covered in this unit:
 * B.4.5 Identify the historical background and meaning of important political values such as freedom, democracy, and justice
 * B.8.3 Describe the relationships between and among significant events, such as the causes and consequences of wars in United States and world history
 * B.8.7 Identify significant events and people in the major eras of United States and world history
 * B.8.8 Identify major scientific discoveries and technological innovations and describe their social and economic effects on society
 * B.8.10 Analyze examples of conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among groups, societies, or nations
 * B.8.12 Describe how history can be organized and analyzed using various criteria to group people and events chronologically, geographically, thematically, topically, and by issues
 * C.8.3 Explain how laws are developed, how the purposes of government are established, and how the powers of government are acquired, maintained, justified, and sometimes abused
 * D.8.2 Identify and explain basic economic concepts: supply, demand, production, exchange, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy; public and private goods and services
 * D.8.7 Identify the location of concentrations of selected natural resources and describe how their acquisition and distribution generates trade and shapes economic patterns

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