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This timeline activity is a hands-on visual way for students to put the events of Ancient Mesopotamia in order, so that they can see how the first ancient civilisation began, changed over time, and eventually ended.

This activity meets the following learning objectives:

• develop an understanding of when the first civilizations appeared (Ancient Mesopotamia)
• develop an understanding of a historical period
• develop an understanding of how the Ancient Mesopotamian civilization changed over time
• sequence important events on a timeline

The timeline comes with clues to help students put the events in order.

Events include the first people to settle in Mesopotamia and Sumer, inventions such as writing, the potter’s wheel, and mathematics, structures such as ziggurats, the Ishtar Gate, and Hanging Gardens, the main empires, and ends with Alexander the Great.

I hope your students enjoy making their timelines and find the activity helpful.

Colour and ink saver, U.K. and U.S. versions, answer key and visual instructions included.