Download Chapter 3 Section 2 and 3 Guided Notes Later Mesopotamian

Chapter 3 Section 2 and 3
Guided Notes
Later Mesopotamian Empires Section 2:
About ________________________, the power of _______________
started to fade. New civilizations began to _____________________
in Mesopotamia as _________________ moved in from nearby states.
Sargon I:
Sargon I was a _____________________ from an area in
__________________ Mesopotamia known as _________________.
Around _____________________, he moved his armies south and
began to conquer the city states of __________________ one by one.
He united the conquered city states with _________________ and
became known as the king of ________________ and
______________. Sargon I created the world’s first
__________________ or group of states under 1 ruler. Sargon I
ruled his _______________ for more than ________________ years.
After his death, his empire _________________.
Hammurabi of Babylon:
About _____________________, a new group of people called the
________________________ entered the
__________________________________________ Valley and built
cities of their own. One of these cities was called
________________________. The king of Babylon,
___________________________________ conquered Akkad and
Sumer and became ruler of a great new ___________________. The
people of Babylon took as their own many parts of the
____________________, or way of life, of the people they had
conquered.
Hammurabi was a great ________________________ and extended
his rule to the _______________________________ Sea. The
____________________ or improvements for which Hammurabi
became best known for was his _____________________________.
Hammurabi appointed royal ____________________ to make sure his
code was carried out __________________ and justly.
During Hammurabi’s rule, Babylon became an important
______________ center. Babylonians exchanged their
_______________ or extra products for money or for goods.
Hammurabi ruled for more than ________________ years. His
__________________ or period of power is known as the “Golden Age
of ____________________”.
Contributions of Mesopotamia Section 3:
From the beginning of Sumer until the death of Hammurabi, the
____________________________ of Mesopotamia on other
civilizations was felt in many ways. Inventions and
_____________________ of the Sumerians and Babylonians were
__________________ and improved upon by other
________________________.
The Sumerians developed the earliest known ___________________
in the world, which has been called the “_____________________ of
_________________________________”. The oldest
_________________ records in the world came from Mesopotamia.
They had the first written _____________________. Cuneiform was
the __________________ for other people’s system of
_______________________. Inventions such as the
________________________ aided transportation, the
_______________ which allowed farmers to grow more food, and the
______________________ which replaced muscle power with wind
power. They also developed a ______________ month calendar
based on the cycles of the ________________. Their number system
was based on the number ________________ and made a clock
controlled by ____________________.