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Ancient Fertile Crescent Study Guide
Know your Mesopotamia vocabulary
Either write them out on the back of this sheet or make
words.
vocabulary cards – you should have already done this...
How did Mesopotamia get its name? What It s the land between 2 rivers (the Tigris and
was the geography like around the Fertile
Euphrates) – Mesopotamia means the land
Crescent and Mesopotamia?
between the rivers.
The Fertile Crescent has mountains in the north
were the rivers start and they flow down to the
flat plains of Mesopotamia. There is fertile soil in
this area from the rivers flooding, but little rain
and desert all around the area.
Describe how the Sumerians went from
hunter-gatherers to a civilization.
Describe the city-states, religion, society,
inventions, writing, and architecture of the
Sumerians.
Know who was most influential in the
Sumerian city-states and why.
Who were some of the other peoples that
rose up in Mesopotamia? Was Ancient
Mesopotamia a peaceful place? Why or
why not?
What was Hammurabi’s Code? What are
the punishments like? How is it
progressive? How did it use trial by ordeal?
What are some of the most famous laws?
Compare it to our Bill of Rights.
How do the Israelites fit in with our study
of Ancient Mesopotamia? How are they
different from everyone else in the ancient
area?
Who was the founder of Judaism? What
was promised to him?
Describe the Exodus. Who led them
through this? What happened after the
Exodus?
The Sumerians figured out how to control the
water of the river with levees and canals/ditches,
then they invented the plow to make farming
easier. With these advances, the population
started growing into large villages/cities, and they
needed fewer farmers. So people could do other
jobs. With other jobs and more people comes the
need for rules/laws and a government =
civilization.
City-states:
Who scattered the Jewish people, what is
the term for that?
Describe the 4 main beliefs, the 3 parts
that make up the Jewish Bible and the
name of it.
Know the name of their house of worship,
religious teachers, and important days.
Know your Fertile Crescent map – be sure
to know the main bodies of water and
regions/landforms.