Download Meso Timeline Scavenger Hunt

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Seventh Grade Social Studies
Mr. LaBrache
5/5/17
Early Humans and Mesopotamia
Timeline Activity
Directions:
Use your notes and your textbook in order to find out in what year each of these events occur.
When you have done four of them, come to see me to check that they are correct. Once all four
are correct, and then you can move on to the next four until you have completed all of them.
Event
Sargon of Akkad creates the first empire (range of dates)
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, most likely ruled in this year
12 Great Sumerian city-states existed by this year
Hammurabi of Babylon ruled during these years (range of dates)
Shamshi-Adad of Assyria ruled during these years (range of dates)
Ziggurat at Ur is constructed
Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon during these years (range of dates)
Groups of hunters-gatherers settled along Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers and started farming
Cyrus the Great comes to power
Nebuchadnezzar puts down Jewish rebellions and burns the city of
Jerusalem
Stonehenge is built
Hanging Gardens of Babylon constructed
Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia invent the wheel and the
sailboat to help them transport goods
Writes simplify pictographs into wedge-shaped cuneiform
Earliest Cro-Magnon fossils, found in southwestern France, date
back to this time
Neanderthal remains found in a cave in Germany date back to this
year
Done
Year