In the sixth grade class, every year we do a simulation of Ancient Mesopotamia.  Each of the students is assigned an “Empire”, which is a group of people that they work with.  There are 5 empires, and they each have a name.  There are the Hittites, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Medes, and Persians.  These were all actual empires in Ancient Mesopotamia.  Each groups job is to gather coins, CP(Civilization Points), Armies, Moves to transport your armies, and resources.  There is a map of Mesopotamia for everyone to see that shows armies, resources, and your home square.  Your home square is where your armies are originally placed when you buy them.  Each group goes through four phases in the simulation.  Tribe, Village, City-State, and Empire.  For each phase,(They all last about one week) all group members do one task.  No matter what the task, the first step is to take notes.  The second step is to make a plan for your task.  The plan must be very detailed.  Then, you do your project.  Projects can vary from making models to writing essays, but there always has to be a creative component.  There are different categories of projects.

They Are:

-Arts, Architecture, and Public Works

-Centralized Government

-Jobs and Social Classes

-Writing

In the end, whoever has the most civilization points wins.  Your civilization points come from doing your tasks with quality work.

These are all of my projects:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11i3IjXImgJN6mJWaG2Zqj4K2Z0cx4gjPUSCa5MtVmec

This is my Tribe Level Task. For this task, I wrote a report on the Government of Mesopotamia. I described all the parts of the Government and what they did.

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This is my village task. I made a social pyramid of the classes such as (Servant, Civilian, King, and Priest)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KWrsYGbGunmtrzd6MK0l1vIi61LMS6I3FoeEL253UM

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This is my City-State Task. I wrote a poem about Mesopotamian Religion, then added a word scramble with letters made of clay.

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For my last task, (Empire Task) I worked with three other people to create a movie about Mesopotamian architecture. We had a good plot while inserting facts about the architecture.