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Chapter 2-3 Study Guide - DUE Tuesday, Oct. 18 (10 points)
Answer the following questions on this paper or on a separate sheet of paper. You do not
need use complete sentences.
ERAS/ICE AGE/AGRICULTURE
1. How long ago was the ice age? How were humans affected by the ice age?
2. How did humans migrate from Africa to new places?
3. What is the Mesolithic Era?
4. What is the Paleolithic Era?
5. What is the Neolithic Era?
6. What is the Neolithic Era known for?
7. What is division of labor and why did it begin?
8. How did farmers control the flow of rivers?
GEOGRAPHY
9. Why did crops grow well in Mesopotamia?
10. Which two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
11. What is silt?
THE FIRST CIVILIZATION
12. When did the first cities develop in Mesopotamia?
13. Who had the first empire?
14. Which city-state first became the most powerful?
15. Who performed religious rituals in Sumer?
16. List the social hierarchy from the top to bottom.
17. What was the men’s role in Sumer?
18. What was the women’s role in Sumer?
19. What is polytheism?
20. Who was educated in Sumer?
21. Mesopotamia is currently in what country?
22. What was the purpose of a wall around a city-state?
SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS
23. What Sumerian invention helped contribute to modern forms of transportation?
24. Describe cuneiform.
25. Describe Sumerian advances in medicine.
26. Describe Sumerians contribution to mathematics.
27. The Sumerian plow is like the modern-day what?
28. What was the purpose of cylinder seals?
29. The ziggurat was an example of a Sumerian achievement in what?
30. Pottery and jewelry are examples of Sumerian achievements in what?
HAMMURABI & LATER GROUPS OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT
31. Hammurabi is best known for?
32. What is one way Hammurabi’s code is like law codes of today?
33. The first groups to rule after Hammurabi were?
34. The resource for which Phoenicia was well-known was?
35. Which people grew more powerful due to trade rather than from winning battles?
36. The Assyrian capital was named?
37. What technologies did the Hittites and Assyrians use in battle?
38. Which two leaders built up Babylonia?
39. Who built the Hanging Gardens?
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**Study & Know your paragraph about How Agriculture Changed Lives.