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Learning more about Mesopotamia

Today Mr. Schick had us write notes from a PowerPoint. It was a recap of what we learned about Mesopotamia and Sumer plus a few extra notes.

Some things we recapped are:

*Kings and  family dynasties emerged
*Cities and towns were founded in Sumer
*Sumer- Heart of Tigris and Euphrates

Here are some new things we learned today:

*Agricultural Revolution
*Shift from hunt/gather to homes
*Population Increase due to food surplus
*Modern Day Countries in the Fertile Crescent: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, and kind of Turkey

Today was also shortened due to a 2-hour delay. We've had two snow days off in a row and I didn't want to go to school today but I did anyway. We also had another very small conversation about the question of if there is a difference in being illiterate and choosing to be illiterate but not actually being illiterate.

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