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A simple sequencing activity to help develop chronological knowledge of Ancient Sumer (and ability to order events into order).
This is based on twenty events from c5000 BCE -start of the Uruk period and increasing urbanisation to c1760 BCE when the Babylonians conquered Mesopotamia.
This comes in three different variants to provide support or challenge, but all are based on the same approach. This is where the events are listed alphabetically -with their approximate dates- and students need to sort them into chronological order -using the outline sheet provided.
This means that they are suitable for adaptive teaching, by providing degrees of scaffolding whilst keeping the content the same.
The main activity is where the events are arranged in groups of five (each of the four different sets in order so that the ‘blank’ timeline is filled from oldest to newest) -there are blank sheets to help with the sequencing.
For greater challenge there is a version with the events organised into two groups of ten events.
For support there is an outline timeline table with the dates already provided, students need to match the correct events to the date.
(The correct order of each set of ten events is provided!)

This resource is suitable for use in class as well as ideal for homework / independent study.
This is a companion resource to our power point on this period -which features these and some additional events in a way designed to help develop understanding of the passing of time.