Download Second Quiz on Mesopotamia

Quiz date: Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Review Sheet for First Quiz on Mesopotamia
1. Name all four river valley civilizations and where they are.
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Is a river called ___________________________________.
Is a river called ___________________________________.
Is a river called ___________________________________.
Was an area called __________________________________.
Is an area called ______________________________.
Is a sea called ____________________________________.
Is a sea called ____________________________________.
Is a gulf called ____________________________________.
3. Why is the area around the rivers green in satellite photos and on
physical maps, but the rest of the area is yellow?
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6. The country currently known as Iraq has had several names. Name three of its
former names.
7. Why are some people still hunter-gathers in 2015?
8. Name three groups of modern hunter-gatherers and the regions they live in.
9. What is the written language of Mesopotamia?
10. Name two cities in Mesopotamia.
11. Name five jobs, other than farmer, that people would have had in Mesopotamia.
12. What is anthropology?
13. What is irrigation?
14. Name two ancient technologies for irrigation.
15. What is a ziggurat?
16. What are the five elements we use to identify a civilization in ancient history.
17. What are five things the Mesopotamians invented?
18. Why are written laws an improvement over unwritten laws?
19. What is the contemporary American concept of “equality under the law,” as
guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution?
20. How are the laws of Ancient Babylon different from contemporary American laws?
21. What groups are treated differently under American law? Think of the written laws,
not the way the justice system operates.
22. What inequalities existed in Ancient Babylonian laws?
23. Why did civilizations start in river valleys?
24. What is another name for the Fertile Crescent? _____________________
25. Who was King Hammurabi?