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Mesopotamia Study Guide
1. What is cuneiform?
2. What is a ziggurat?
3. What is a city-state?
What is included in a city-state?
4. What is a levee?
5. Who built the Hanging Gardens?
6. What material were Mesopotamian homes built out of?
7. Which two rivers is Mesopotamia between?
8. Where did the first civilization develop?
9. Who built the cities of Nineveh and Nimrud?
10. What types of tablets did Mesopotamians write on?
11. What were the three major civilizations of Mesopotamia?
12. Who is Gilgamesh?
13. What allowed for the increase in population and the development
of cities?
14. What does Mesopotamia mean?
15. What are some of the cities in Mesopotamia named?
16. Who was at the top of Mesopotamian society?
17. Who was at the bottom of Mesopotamian society?
18. Who was right in the middle of Mesopotamian society?
19. What allowed for crops to be irrigated?
20. How did Hammurabi’s Code of Laws punish people?
What does “eye for an eye” and “tooth for a tooth” mean?
21. What are some of the inventions or accomplishments of the
Mesopotamians, and why are they important?
22. Label and locate current day countries of the Middle East. As well
as, the cities of Ur, Uruk, & Babylon, as well as, Tigris and
Euphrates River, Syrian & Arabian Desert, Taurus and Zagros
Mountains and lastly the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Mediterranean
Sea, and Arabian Sea
23. What does polytheistic mean? Name some gods/goddess from
Mesopotamia.
24. Name at least one famous ruler from each of the three major
Mesopotamian cultures we talked about and their claim to fame.