Study Guide
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| show | - ________ is a region of fertile, well-watered land in the Middle East from the Persian Gulf, up the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, down the eastern shores of Mediterranean Sea to the Nile River
- World's oldest neolithic (farming) cities developed here
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| Mesopotamia | show 🗑
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| Drought | show 🗑
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| Famine | show 🗑
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| show | - An extra supply of something (a resource) like food (wheat & barley), cloth, tools, or seeds that can be used to trade/barter with is called a ______________
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| show | - A trade of one resource for another without the use of money
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| show | - _______ is a region on the plains between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, where the first farmers lived after moving out of the Zagros Mountains
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| show | - A walled-city that has its own government (which were kings aka monarchs) and the farmland surrounding it is called a _________
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| Ziggurat | show 🗑
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| Cuneiform | show 🗑
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| show | - ___ is a city-state slightly north of Sumer, that was famous for its hanging gardens
- Was capital of two important empires.
- Home of Hammurabi
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| show | - ___ is the King of Babylonia, famous for his legal system which punished you for crimes committed based on your social class.
"Eye for an eye justice"
Also created a postal service AND a system of roads throughout his empire
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| Code of Hammurabi | show 🗑
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| show | - ____ is the world's first monotheistic religion
- developed by shepherds from Sumer, including Abraham
Abraham's teachings created Judaism, and eventually inspired Christianity & Islam
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| show | - ___ is the Hebrew leader (founder of the religion) who took his people from Sumer (Ur) to Canaan and created the world's first monotheistic religion, Judaism
- His teachings also inspire Christianity and Islam
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| show | - ___ is the region settled by the ancient Hebrews, where present day Israel is.
- Both Abraham and then Moses led the Jewish people here
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| Moses | show 🗑
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| Polytheism | show 🗑
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| Jerusalem | show 🗑
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| How did the resource of water and the need for irrigation affect the growth of civilization in the Fertile Crescent? | show 🗑
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| drought (context) | show 🗑
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| show | - The Hebrews lived in Canaan until a drought caused a ____________ which forced them to move into Egypt where they were enslaved for hundreds of years
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| show | - Mesopotamians would trade or _____________with their surplus of wheat and barley for goods they could not produce in their own land such as stone, wood, metals and cloth.
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| show | - Abraham, the founder or creator of Judaism, was from the Sumerian city-state of Ur
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| show | - Sumerians were the first to invent__________________ to keep written records, which was so awesome, it was adopted by every empire who came after them
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| show | - Hammurabi's purpose for writing down his ______________ was to help unite his empire and establish expectations of behavior for his people. He said that the laws were from the gods!
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| show | - ____________________ is still practiced by approximately 15 million people around the world today and together with Christianity and Islam represent over 50% of the world population.
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| show | -_____ was king who founded Akkadian Empire
-Famous for battle formation (phalanx) shield holders in front & spears thrust from behind
- knocked down city walls
- replaced conquered leaders w/ loyal friends
- Sons inherited power after death
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| show | - ___ was King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire who expanded the empire by driving the Egyptians out of Syria, and conquering Canaan.
- Defended capital w/ double walls, archer towers, moats & drawbridge!
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife
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| Mesopotamian Social Structure | show 🗑
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| The Akkadian Empire | show 🗑
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| The Babylonian Empire | show 🗑
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| The Assyrian Empire | show 🗑
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| The Neo Babylonian | show 🗑
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| show | - With their _____________ of wheat and barley, Mesopotamians were able to get luxury goods like gold, silver and gems for their beautiful jewelry.
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