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Chapter 2, 1-3 STUDY GUIDE
Important facts/definitions
1. Define Mesopotamia. What does Mesopotamia mean?
2. Define Fertile Crescent and tell why it is called the Fertile Crescent.
3. Define code and tell what its purpose was.
4. Define city-state
5. Which group of people had similar beliefs about laws we do?
6. How many laws were in Hammurabi’s code and what did they tell people?
7. The Medes and the Chaldeans were responsible for what in 612BC?
8. In 539BC the Babylonian Empire fell but what was spared?
9. Babylon was a crossroads of _____________ between what two cities?
10. Hammurabi created the Babylonian Empire by_______________________________
11. The Chaldeans helped the new Babylonian Empire excel in ____________
12. Define scribe
13. What was set up in Sumer over 4,000 years ago?
14. What was Hammurabi’s Code?
15. Students in Sumerian schools usually started at the age of ____ and finished about _____
years later.
16. Define bazaar
17. Who held positions of great respect?
18. Records of farm animals were the earliest ______________________________
19. Define battering ram
20. Hammurabi’s code was not equal for all people, the punishment depended on what?
21. Writing was invented in __________________________
22. Define myth
23. Define empire
24. Sumerians came up with their system of writing independently. They also came up with the
idea of ____________________________________________________
25. What did Military scribes do?
26. Define polytheism
27. Define caravan
28. Define cuneiform
29. Hammurabi’s code is important to us because it was the first time that__________
30. The earliest known cities arose in the southern region of Sumer along what?
31. Cities in Mesopotamia shared a common culture and language but they remained politically
independent ______________.
32. The king of the New Babylonian Empire from _______ to _______.
______________________
33. Military invention by the Assyrians_____________________________
34. What did scribes use to write on?
35. Who built the hanging gardens and who were they built for?
36. What was Hammurabi’s code based on?
37. Identify Chaldeans.
38. What is important about the city of Nineveh?
39. Most Valuable skill in the ancient world. _______________
40. Why were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers known as the rivers of life and death?
41. Sumer’s __________ became its downfall. Sumerian city-states fought over
_____________________ and ___________________________________. Sumer fell to
northern rival _______________________ in the 1700s BC.