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Mesopotamia Unit Test Study Guide
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Directions: Answer each question below. Use your notes and assignments to help you answer these
questions.
1) How did the Mesopotamians use AND control the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
2) How did the location of Mesopotamia impact its environment (Think: why did people settle there)?
3) What were the major inventions and advancements of the Sumerians?
4) What does Mesopotamia mean?
5) Who was Hammurabi and what did he do?
6) What were ziggurats? What did they look like (draw a sketch)?
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7) What is division of labor?
8) What are the 6 characteristics of a civilization? How does Sumer meet these characteristics?
9) What is cuneiform? Why was it first used?
10) What type of religion did the Sumerians have (Monotheistic or polytheistic)?
11) What did Sargon “build” that was the world’s first?
12) What was the social structure in Sumer?