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The Akkadians

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Introducing Ancient Sumer

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Objectives

History

  • Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies.
  • The expansion and dissolution of empires.
  • Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’ and ‘civilisation’.
  • Understand the connections between economic and military history.

Art

  • Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing.

Lesson Planning

Understand the decline in the Sumerian civilisation and the invasion by the Akkadians. Read the legend of Sargon the Great. Research the Sumerian army, including weapons and tactics. Draw a battle scene in the style of Sumerian records.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand that repeated warfare between city-states weakened the Sumerians and that the Akkadians invaded.
  • To retell the legend of Sargon the Great.
  • To describe Sumerian weapons, armour and tactics.
  • To draw a battle scene in the style of Sumerian records.

Children will:

  • Understand the decline in the Sumerian civilisation and its invasion by the Akkadians.
  • Read the legend of Sargon the Great.
  • Describe some of the weapons and tactics that Sumerian armies used.
  • Draw a battle scene in the style of Sumerian records.

Provided Resources

  • Images of Sargon the Great
  • The Legend of Sargon
  • The Sumerian list of Kings
  • Sumerian weapons
  • Records of battles

You Will Need

  • Drawing pencils and paper

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