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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA STUDYGUIDE
Test on Friday, 11/7
Directions: Below is a list of key terms, places, and topics for your test on November
7th. Please create a study-guide answering and/or defining the topics below. Study
Guides are due on Wednesday, 11/5.
HOW TO CREATE YOUR STUDY-GUIDE: Check off each box next to each
section/question when you have completed that section of your study guide. Then
STUDY!
Vocabulary to know:
Mesopotamia
irrigation
levee
polytheism
Check
when
done!
silt
city-state
civilization
social structure
Key Concepts:
1. Geography:
Where to look to find
the information
merchant
artisan
scribe
culture
cuneiform
technology
ziggurat
Questions and topics to answer and describe with detail
Mesopotamian
Scavenger Hunt
worksheet and pages
33-39 of the textbook
What present day countries make up the Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamian
Scavenger Hunt
worksheet and pages
33-39 of the textbook
Explain why people settled in the Fertile Crescent.
Mesopotamian
Scavenger Hunt
worksheet and pages
33-39 of the textbook
List the many ways the two rivers were important to
Mesopotamia
Mapping
Mesopotamia
Worksheet
Review your Ancient Mesopotamian Map – There will be a blank
map on the test that you will have to label with the following
places:
- Tigris River
- Zagros Mts.
- Region of
Sumer (shade it)
- Euphrates River
- Taurus Mts.
- Persian Gulf
- Mediterranean Sea
- Babylon
- Ur
2. Civilization:
TECHNOLOGY
Pages 45-53 of the
textbook &
Innovations of the
Sumerians worksheet
● List 5 Sumerian inventions
RELIGION and
GOVERNMENT
Pages 45-53 of the
textbook, Sumerian
Religion, & Sumerian
Government
worksheets
● Explain how the Sumerians demonstrated the importance
CHARACTERISTICS
of a CIVLIZATION
Pages 45-53 of the
textbook and
Civilization Notes
Open Response Question on the test
● Be able to describe in detail the Sumerian irrigation
system and its impact on Sumer.
of religion in their everyday lives.
● How were government and religion connected in Sumerian
society?
Is Mesopotamia a civilization?
Your answer should have the following:
● _____Catchy Topic Sentence
● _____A definition of a civilization.
● _____Three supporting details for why Mesopotamia
is a civilization. Each one should be well explained.
You can have more than three supporting details.
● _____Closing statement.