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Chapter 2 Test Review
Mesopotamia
Category:
Geography
Draw a map of the Fertile Crescent region.
Try to include as many details with labels
as you can.
Category:
Geography
1. What two major rivers cause the soil in the fertile
crescent to be so fertile? Be able to explain
A. Tigris River
B. Euphrates River
2. What country is the Nile River in today?
A. Egypt
3. Name the country that makes up most of the Fertile
Crescent today.
B. Iraq (and some of Syria)
Category:
Geography
4. If I flew southwest of the Zagros Mtns., what desert would I fly
over?
A. Syrian Desert (or Arabian Desert)
5. If I paddled my kayak down to the end of the Tigris River, what
gulf would I paddle into?
A. Persian Gulf
6. If I started a trip from Asia Minor, then went southeast to the
Syrian Desert, then I traveled east to the Persian Gulf, what two
seas would be to my west?
A. Red Sea
B. Mediterranean Sea
Category:
Essential Questions
How did the geography of Mesopotamia enable a
civilization to develop there?
A. Tigris & Euphrates Rivers caused floods,
bringing fertile soil every year, this led to a food
surplus to feed people and to trade
B. Physical features protected people from
invasions: Taurus Mtns., Zagros Mtns., Syrian
Desert
C. Mediterranean Sea helped with water trading
routes
Category:
Essential Questions
2. Why do civilizations or empires collapse?
**A. Fighting/wars, some empires are taken over
by other empires
**B. Natural events impacting food sources such
as salt intrusion from over irrigating fields, or
long droughts
C. Natural disasters such as earthquakes or
volcanic eruptions
Category:
Essential Questions
3. What was Mesopotamia’s legacy to the rest of the
world?
A. Early writing systems such as cuneiform and
Phoenician alphabet
B. Organized, written laws, Hammurabi’s Code
Category:
Vocabulary
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Babylon
polytheism
scribe
Fertile Crescent
city-state
caravan
Irrigation
Hammurabi
bazaar
legacy
triangulation
anarchy
monotheism
code
cuneiform