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Directions: Answer the questions below as you watch the video. Try to include as much detail as
possible. You will be responsible for any information covered in this video.
Homework tonight: On a separate sheet of paper, take your answers to these questions and
rewrite them in complete sentences.
Sumer 3500- 2000 BCE
1. What does the word Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
2. The use of irrigation by the early Sumerian improved farming conditions. How did this affect the people?
What kinds of specialized jobs were created?
3. What is a ziggurat? What was its purpose?
4. What were the advantages and disadvantages of the mud bricks that were used by the Sumerians?
5. For what reason did the people of Sumer sleep on platforms over the roofs of their houses?
6. Who were the Lugal-gal and what were their responsibilities?
7. Describe specific items created/invented by the Sumerians?
8. The people of Mesopotamia were the first to use which architectural structure, which was later
adopted by the Romans?
9. What do historians view as the most important invention of the Sumerians? What were the
stages of this invention?
10. What is a scribe? What duties did a scribe in Sumer have?
Assyria (2000-605 BCE)
11. From where did the Assyrians acquire their iron, and how did it get its nickname, “Metal from Heaven?”
12. What qualities and structures did historians associate with the ancient Assyrian people?
Babylonia (2000-529 BCE)
13. Name the capital Babylonian city built by Nebuchadnezzar. What famous structure did
Nebuchadnezzar build in his new city?
14. How long did the great Babylonian leader, Nebuchadnezzar, rule?
15. Which city did Nebuchadnezzar invade? Which great ancient structure did he destroy?
16. What was the name of the Persian leader who took over Babylon, but still kept their ideas
and culture alive?
17. Name the three civilizations, discussed in this film, which called Mesopotamia home.