Download Mesopotamia Test Part I

Mesopotamia Test Part I
Step One: Drag the events to the right to put in chronological order.
3500 B.C.
Event 1:
Cities growing across Mesopotamia
3
1800 B.C. 5
Event 2:
Hammurabi unites much of
Mesopotamia
2400 B.C.
Event 3:
Pictographs become cuneiform
Event 4:
2300 B.C.
Sumerian cities united by King Sargon
of Akkad
Event 5:
3000 B.C.
Sumerians use carts and wheels for
transporting goods
Step 3: What can you infer must have happened between Event 4 and Event 5?
Step 4: What did King Hammurabi do that likely helped him unite Mesopotamia? Why would this have
been a unifying factor?
Mesopotamia Test Part I
Click here to use Mesopotamia Reading 1 to answer the following questions.
What does the map tell you about the importance of water in forming the Fertile Crescent?
What year was the gateway of the ziggurat built?
List 3 challenges that influence the development of city-states.
1.
2.
3.
Of those 3 challenges, which one would be YOUR focus to fix if YOU were the priest-king? Explain your
answer.
What is the famous saying associated with the Code of Hammurabi?
Click here to use Mesopotamia Reading 2 and Mesopotamia Reading 3 to complete the question and
social class pyramid below.
Explain 2 different reasons a person might become a slave.
Mesopotamia Test Part I
Use information from the readings to drag descriptions into the appropriate section on the social class
structure pyramid.
King
Shaved
head
Slave
Cheap
jewelry
Long hair
Priest
Artisan
Farmer
Mesopotamia Test Part I
What agricultural practice was a technology used by the early Mesopotamians that controlled water?
Explain how irrigation worked during the dry AND rainy seasons.
Name one invention that bettered transportation by water. Explain how this invention made travel here
easier.