1. The document provides a study guide and questions about early Mesopotamian civilizations including Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria. It includes matching, short answer, fill in the blank, true/false, and timeline questions. 2. Key topics covered include the location of early river valley civilizations along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the development of irrigation, cities, writing systems, and law codes including Hammurabi's Code. 3. Important figures mentioned include Sargon, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar along with civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans.

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Unit II Mesopotamia Study Guide: Test and Study Guide due 9-30-16
Matching: Match each item with the correct statementbelow:Pg. 15
_____ 1. Greekfor “landbetweenthe rivers”
_____ 2. Complex societiesthathave organizedgovernments,culture,andwriting
_____ 3. A method thatbringswaterto crops
_____ 4. Area with itsownindependentgovernment, laws,kings,andmilitary
_____ 5. A formof writingdevelopedbythe people of Sumer
Short Answer: Identifythe location of earlyriver valleycivilizations:Pg.14 and pg. 25-26
6. What geographic feature didall of these civilizationsdevelop near?___________________________
7. List twofactors that made rivervalleysidealforfarming:
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8. What two riversran throughMesopotamia?_______________________________________________
9. What is the “Fertile Crescent?”_________________________________________________________
10.
Label the following locations and outline the Fertile Crescent:
Tigris River Sumer Mesopotamia Nineveh
EuphratesRiver Ur Fertile Crescent Babylon
Name: Date: Class Period:
Parent Signature:(5pts.)
A. Mesopotamia
B. B. Cuneiform
C. C. city-state
D. D. civilization
E. E. irrigation

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11. Timeline: Write the name on the blank: Nebuchadnezzar, Sargon, Hammurabi Pg. 21
12. Label eachartifact:
A: _______________________________________________
B: _______________________________________________
C: ________________________________________________
D: ________________________________________________
Fill in the blank: Word Bank: polytheism farming Scribes
Ziggurat Theocracy cities
13. The earlypeople’seconomywasbasedon_______________________________________________
2300 BCE
Builtnew capital,Akkad on Euphrates,
established world’s first empire
empire
c. 1792 BCE
Createdthe firstwrittencode of
laws
c. 612 BC
Most famousChaldeanking,rebuilt
Babylon,&had hanginggardens
A.
B.
C. D.

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14. What type of governmentdidthe ancientMesopotamianshave thatalsohadreligiousleadersin
charge of the government?______________________________________________________________
15. In orderfor governmenttodeveloppeoplehadtodevelop__________________________________
16. Those whowere trainedhowtowrite inancientMesopotamiaiscalled?______________________
17. The Sumerianreligionwas____________________________________________________________
18. A __________________________________ isa Sumerian temple;itisshapedlikeasquare pyramid.
True False:If false correct the statementto make it correct
19. A groupof manylandsunderone ruleriscalledan artifact:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
20. The middle classinMesopotamiahadthe highestpopulation:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
21. Sumerianideasandinventionswere ignoredbyotherpeople andeventuallyforgottenabout:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
22. Sargonbuiltthe HangingGardens of Babylonforhiswife:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
23. A cityand the surroundingfarmlandwithitsowngovernmentiscalledacity-state:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Hammurabi’s Code Pg. 20-21:
24. Where were the lawsposted?_________________________________________________________
25. Were all people treatedequallyunderHammurabi’slaws?Explain:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
26. Why wasHammurabi’sCode of Laws soimportant?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
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Gilgameshpg.23
27. What type of source are epics,primaryor secondary?
28. What commoncharacteristicdoall epicpoemsshare?
29. The epicof Gilgameshisanexample of literature fromwhichcivilization?______________________

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30. What is the lasteventon
the timeline?
_______________________
31. How manyyearspassed
betweenthe Chaldeansand
MedescapturedNineveh
and the Persiansconquering
the Chaldeans?
_______________________
32. How manyyearspassed
betweenthe Sumerians
inventingthe Cuneiform
writingandthe Epic of
Gilgameshisdiscovered?
_______________________
c. 3200 B.C.E.
Sumerians invent
cuneiform writing
system
C.E. 1872 The Epic of
Gilgamesh is identified
c. C.E. 1850 The Epic
of Gilgamesh is
discovered
c. 3000 B.C.E. City-states
arisein Sumer
c. 612 B.C.E.
Chaldeans and Medes
capture Nineveh
C. 539 B.C.E. Persians
conquer Chaldeans
c. 1792 B.C.E. Hammurabi
becomes kingof
Babylonian Empire
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