Day One Mesopotamia Simulation Reflection

Today during humanities, we did a simulation about Ancient Mesopotamia. The simulation was split into 5 teams. Each team had to finish 4 tasks before making the secret invention. My team decided that Sophia and I would start working on the written languages while Steven and Sayi were working on writing laws. Sophia and I finished early so Sophia starting working on “building” a temple while I was working on trading in the trading circle. I kept trading until our group didn’t have extra resources. We had most of the supplies, but we were still missing two resources: tape and a rubber band. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to the secret invention, but the secret invention was the catapult. Ms.Shannon said that the catapult was important in the ancient days because that’s how you can conquer other countries and steal their resources. My job in my group was mostly trading resources and also drawing the written language.

I think our biggest accomplishment was being able to find most of the resources even though we didn’t have a lot of resources. I also think that the weakest point of our civilization was not being able to have a lot of natural resources to trade with but this is the reality.

If I could change this simulation, I would change my basket of resources with another team basket with a lot of resources to use and trade.