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Mesopotamia Society
Religion
Social
Pyramid
1. What did
Mesopotamians
believe in?
1. What is job
specialization?
2. What does
Polytheism
mean?
2. What did
specialization of
jobs lead to?
3. What is a
ziggurat?
3. Who was at the 3. How did the
top of the social
king provide
pyramid?
physical safety?
4. Who made
offerings to the
gods or
goddesses?
5. Who did the
land and their
work belong to?
Leadership
& The Elite
Ch.1 Sec. 2 & 3
Conquering
Mesopotamia
A Series of
Empires (1)
A Series of
Empires (2)
1. Who are the
1. What made
two most powerful Mesopotamia
people in
rich?
Mesopotamia?
1. What did an
irrigation system
do?
1. Who was the
king of the
Akkadian
Empire?
1. Who took
power after the
fall of the
Babylonia?
2. How was the
king in charge of
the ziggurats?
2. What other
civilizations did
Mesopotamia
trade with?
2. What did the 2
rivers provide?
2.How long did
the Akkadian
Empire last?
2. Why were the
Assyrians so
strong?
3. What jobs did
craftspeople do?
3. What was the
first city-state?
3. Who was the
king of Babylon?
3. What caused
the Assyrian army
to loose control?
Working
class &
Enslaved
4. Who was at the 4. What did the
4. What was the
bottom?
king’s officials do? writing system
called?
5. Which
5. What was the
5. What did the
occupations were job of the priests? farmers get from
in the middle?
the king in return
for crops?
6. Which group
was the largest?
Name: ____________________________
6. Who did the
priest make
offerings to?
6. What 3 ways
could you
become
enslaved?
4. Why would citystates fight each
other?
5. What were the
Sumerian citystates connected
by?
4. How long after
Akkadian rule?
5. What is
Hammurabi
known for?
6. Who
conquered the
Babylonian
empire?
7. What year did
the Babylonian
empire last to?
4. What empire
replaced the
Assyrian empire?
5. What did
Nebuchadnezzar
rebuild?
6. Who conquered
the Chaldean
Empire?
Religion
Social
Pyramid
Leadership
& The Elite
Working
class &
Enslaved
Conquering
Mesopotamia
A Series of
Empires (1)
A Series of
Empires (2)
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