Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 8B | Approaching the Great Pyramid 159
- Show students Image Card 5 (Ziggurat). Ask students to identify
what they see, and review what ziggurats were in Mesopotamia. - Ask students how pyramids are similar to the ziggurats of
Mesopotamia. (They both are tall, large, and built by people.) - Ask students how the pyramid is different from the ziggurat.
(Pyramids: built in Egypt; for pharaoh; triangular sides; used for
burial. Ziggurats: built in Mesopotamia; for the gods; rectangular
layers; religious place.)