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Mesopotamia Test Study Guide
Geography
1. Describe the climate and geography of Mesopotamia.
2. Identify the following places on a map of Mesopotamia:
the Fertile Crescent, Sumer, Babylon, Ur, Euphrates
River, Tigris River, Persian Gulf, and the
Mediterranean Sea.
3. Explain why civilizations formed by rivers.
4. Draw an irrigation system for the wet and dry season.
Religion
5. Describe the religious practices of the Mesopotamians.
Achievements
6. Identify the inventions developed by Sumerians.
Politics/City-States
7. Describe the achievements of the Assyrian Empire.
8. Know how the Assyrian Empire lost power and to whom
they lost power.
9. Describe the city of Babylon.
10.
Identify the ways city-state protected
themselves.
11.
Describe how the Chaldeans rose to power and
their contributions.
12.
Describe Sargon, the Akkadian’s contributions to
society.
Politics/Leaders
13.
Identify the achievements of Hammurabi.
14.
Describe laws in Hammurabi’s Code.
Economics
15.
Which city-state became the most powerful trade
city and why?
16.
What system did traders use to move their goods
from one place to another?
Social Structure
17.
List the levels of society and the right that
came with the different levels.
18.
Know the rights and privileges women and men had.
Vocabulary words
People
Places
Sargon and the Tigris River
Akkadians
Hammurabi
Euphrates
River
scribe
Sumer
Nebuchadnezzar Babylon
and the
Chaldeans
astronomer
Mesopotamia
Assyria
Persian Gulf
Hanging
Gardens of
Babylon
Things
civilization
irrigation
city-state
cuneiform
empire
Hammurabi’s
code
caravan