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A resource to help students improve their knowledge and understanding of the chronology of Ancient Sumerian history.
This resource is designed specifically to help students in particular with the concept of chronology through a visual example.
The power point is designed to convey a sense of the passage of time by having the transition between slides vary in length depending on how many years actually passed between events.

There is a range of 24 selected events from c4,100 BCE -start of the Uruk period and increasing urbanisation to c1760 BCE when the Babylonians conquered Mesopotamia.
Each slide has a date, event and appropriate illustration. Each event slide is on show for five seconds and with the transitions varying from one second to forty seconds the whole presentation lasts for approximately five minutes. (most transitions are eight seconds or shorter, so students don’t have too long to wait but does give a sense of different lengths of time).

There is also a ‘click through’ version of the slide show (same events) to enable the teacher to pause to give additional information or discuss the event with students.
The selection of events is not meant to be definitive for the study of that period (it’s a selection not a comprehensive timeline). This allows for an extra activity/challenge of students deciding what is missing/what could be left out?
This is a companion resource to our timeline activity on this period -which features most of these events in a sequencing challenge.