Download Chapter 3 Mesopotamia Study guide - 6th Grade History

Mesopotamia Study Guide
Using your workbook (pages 33-40), class notes, and handouts in your binder, please answer the
following questions to prepare you for your test on Ancient Mesopotamia.
1. Why was Mesopotamia called the Cradle of Civilization?
2. Describe the area of the Fertile Crescent: (You should be able to label the Tigris River,
Euphrates River, Mediterranean Sea, and Persian Gulf)
2. What are three advantages and three disadvantages of living within the area of the Fertile
Crescent?
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
3. Be able to describe the Sumerian City-State (there is a really good graphic organizer on this in
your workbook!)
4. What are the three social classes of Ancient Mesopotamia?
1st (most powerful) =
2nd=
3rd=
5. What is Hammurabi’s Code? Why is it important?
6. What group took over Mesopotamia in the 1800s B.C. E., and who was their leader?
7. What did the Assyrians do to the people they defeated?
8. What advancement allowed the Assyrian’s to defeat others in battle?
9. How were the Chaldeans able to take over the Assyrian empire?
10. Which king built the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World?
11. What are three Sumerian advances that still have an impact on the world today?
Terms- Please define the following.
12. Polytheism13. Empire14. City-state15. Irrigation16. Cuneiform17. Ziggurat18. Scribe19. Silt20. Tribute-
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