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World History
Study Guide 1.2
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Chapter 1 Section 2
WESTERN ASIA & EGYPT
DIRECTIONS: As you read Section 2 (pages 24-34), complete the following statements in the space
provided.
I. Mesopotamia was located between the _______________________and ___________________ Rivers.
A. What role did the geography play in the development of Mesopotamian civilization?
B. Sargon, the leader of the ____________________, overran the Sumerian city-states and set up
the first ___________________in world history.
C. Why was it so easy for Sargon and his army to invade the Sumerian city-states?
D. ____________________created a code of law.
E. Mesopotamian society was p_________________; that is, men dominated it.
F. The Sumerians devised a ________________system based on 60.
G. Name two major inventions of the Sumerians and tell how those inventions affect our lives
today.
II. Egypt’s important cities developed at the tip of the __________________________ Delta.
A. The monarchs of the Old Kingdom were called _______________________.
B. __________________were tombs for the mummified bodies of the pharaohs.
C. During the period of the _______________________Kingdom, Egypt was the most powerful
state in Southwest Asia.
D. Early Egyptian writing was called ______________________
III. The Israelites were a group of __________-speaking people who lived in the region of _____________ .
A. King ________________built a temple in the city of _________________.
B. The Jews were _______________________; they believed in one God.
C. To fulfill their __________________with God, Jews had to obey the Ten __________________.
D. The Jews believed that God sent religious teachers, called _______________________.
E. Which aspect of the Israelite culture had the greatest impact on Western civilization?
IV. The Persians lived in what is today _________________.
A. ________________the Great captured Babylon in 539 B.C..
B. An efficient system of ______________________was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire.
C. In the 330s B.C., the Persian Empire was conquered by the Greek ruler __________________.
D. What caused the Persian Empire to decline after the death of Darius?