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Mesopotamia
Chapter 3 Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent Study Guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Where did the early people settle? | Where crops would grow |
| __________was well suited for farming because it lay between two rivers. | Asia |
| __________means “between the rivers” in Greek. | Mesopotamia |
| ___________a large arc of rich, fertile farmland. | Fertile Crescent |
| ___________a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks. | Silt |
| How did irrigation help farmers? | It provided a way of supplying water to fields and storing water. |
| __________ destroyed crops, killed livestock, and washed away homes. | Flooding |
| _______A way of supplying water to an area of land. | Irrigation |
| Human made waterways. | Canals |
| Irrigation increased the amount of food farmers were able to grow causing a___________and it gave people a particular task called_________. | Surplus, Division of labor |
| ____________developed the world’s first civilization. | Sumerians |
| _________was the first ruler to have a permanent army. | Sargon |
| Sargon established the first_______. | Empire |
| __________is the worship of many gods. | Polytheism |
| __________people who performed religious ceremonies. | Priest |
| The first known female writer in history. | Enheduanna |
| The world’s first system of writing. | Cuneiform |
| Picture symbols. | Pictographs |
| Sumerians hired a writer called a____to keep track of items people traded. | Scribe |
| Long poems that tell the stories of heroes. | Epics |
| Sumerians invented a__that used falling water to measure time. | Clock |
| ___were the first people to build wheeled vehicles, including carts and wagons. | Sumerians |
| What was at the center of most Sumerian cities? | A ziggurat |
| ___was a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life. | Hammurabi’s Code |
| When did Hammurabi become Babylon’s King? | 1792 BC |
| The Hittite Kingdom came to a end because their king was assassinated and it was overrun by the____. | Kassites |
| The Assyrians had military advantages because they had____,____,and__. | Iron weapons, chariots, and good organization |
| A group from the Syrian Desert led other peoples in an attack on the Assyrians. | Chaldeans |
| The most famous Chaldean king, rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city. | Nebuchadnezzar |
| A set of letters that can be combined to form words. | Alphabet |
| The ___ sailed through Egypt, Greece, Italy, Sicily, and Spain. | Phoenicians |
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