Social Studies Name ___________________
Mesopotamia Date _____________ Pd. ___
Mesopotamia Review Packet
Directions: Use your classroom textbook and chapter outlines to help you
complete this review packet.
Chapter 1~ The Geography of the Fertile Crescent p. 54
Chapter 2~ Cities of Sumer p.58
Chapter 3~ Babylon and Assyria p. 66
Chapter 4~ The Birth of Judaism p. 72
1) A _____________ is a mud-brick temple where Sumerians worshipped their gods.
2) _______________ is one of the earliest writing systems in the world. It used wedge-shaped symbols to represent ideas, sounds and objects.
3) What was a result of Sumerians having a surplus of food? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4) Define Mesopotamia: ____________________________________
5) What is silt? How is it helpful to farmers?
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6) To protect against floods, farmers built a system of __________________ to keep the flood waters back.
7) A system of canals to bring water to crops and fields is called ________________________.
8) Draw (quick sketch) a 3 layered ziggurat below and label each social class inside each level.
9) Define erosion: ______________________________________
10) A ___________ is a person who knows how to read and write.
11) The major causes of wars among the people of the Fertile Crescent were the control over ________________ & ________________.
12) The first known conqueror in the Fertile Crescent was ___________.
13) _____________ is the use of tools and skills to create or build things.
14) A city that had its own government is known as ________________.
15) An __________ is conquered lands of many people in many places, governed by one ruler.
16) Fair treatment under the law is known as __________ __________.
17) Define Hammurabi’s Code: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
18) What is meant by “an eye for an eye”? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
19) Hammurabi set up a system of _______________, to pay the expense of his government. People were required to pay _______ in crops or other goods they produced.
20) The Sumerians practiced _____________, a belief in many gods and goddesses.
21) The most important change in the religion of Mesopotamian society was ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
22) The belief in one god is known as ________________________.
23) The ____ ________________ is a set of laws for responsible behavior given to _________ by God on Mount Sinai.
24) The first major religion which was established by the Israelites was ________________.
25) The set of laws guiding the Israelites became an important part of which three major religions? __________________,
26) The first five books of Moses are known as the ______________.
27*) A settlement separated from, but under the control of, a home country is known as a ______________.
28*) Before the innovation of ___________, traders relied on _________, the exchange of one good or service for another.
29. List all the reasons why early people would want to settle next to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? Think… What could they use the rivers for?
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