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Ancient Mesopotamia -From the British Museum Name _________________________Date:_________ Period#_____ Launch Internet Explorer, type http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ in the address bar at the top of the page. Use the links on the left to locate answers to the following questions. Click on the Tigris and Euphrates to return to the main menu. Geography 1. What does Mesopotamia mean? ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What are the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the geography of Northern Mesopotamia? ______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is the geography of Southern Mesopotamia? _____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Gods and Goddesses 5. About how many gods and goddesses did Mesopotamia have? ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Each city had its own god or goddess. What did the god/goddess do for the city? _____________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Where did the gods/goddesses live? _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Time 8. About how long ago were the early civilizations started in Mesopotamia? ___________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What is a ‘tell?’ _________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Click on Explore. When did Gilgamesh Rule? __________________________________________________________________________________ Writing 11. What are pictographs? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What did they use pictographs for? _________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What did pictographs develop into over time? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What were scribes and what did they record? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Assyrian Palaces 15. What did the king do in the palace? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Astronomers of Babylon 16. What did the astronomers report to the king? _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What was an omen? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Trade and Transport 18. What did the Babylonians trade their Grain, oils and textiles for? _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ The Royal Tombs of UR 19. From 1922 to 1934, an archaeologist named C. Leonard Woolley excavated the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur. How many graves did he discover? ________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Why were some called royal tombs? ________________________________________________________________________ Ziggurats 21. What is a ziggurat? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 22. Go back to each section and try the challenge.
