Study Guide for Chapter 3 Learning Celebration (test)

Please record your answers on a separate sheet of paper. This test will include multiple choice and the map of Mesopotamia. This study guide will be due on the day of the test! Everything from chapter 3 is also due on day of the test (if you are missing anything). No late work on chapter 3 will be accepted once we are done with chapter 3- unless you were absent.

  1. For your map, you will need to know the location of the following:

Tigris River, Euphrates River, Ur, Babylon, Red Sea, Nile River, and Asia Minor. There will be a blank map and you will label them directly on the map.

  1. What was the first ability that allowed early civilizations to develop in Mesopotamia?
  2. How did Sargon establish the world's first empire?
  3. What role did the wall around Ur serve?
  4. Why were priests so influential in Sumerian society?
  5. What is a social hierarchy?
  6. What was the first collection of written laws?
  7. Name three Phoenician inventions.
  8. Why was Hammurabi's Code so important?
  9. Name three groups who invaded and conquered Mesopotamia.
  10. What is the function of irrigation?
  11. What is a surplus?
  12. What is silt?
  13. What is cuneiform?
  14. What did scribes do?
  15. What is a city-state?
  16. Explain what it means to be rural.
  17. Why was Hammurabi's code important in world history?
  18. How did trade affect Sumerian society?
  19. Describe the Sumerian religion.
  20. Why did civilization first develop along rivers?
  21. How did the division of labor help lead to the beginnings of civilization?
  22. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name?
  23. What is irrigation and how did irrigation affect the lives of people in Mesopotamia?
  24. Why was Hammurabi's Code written down?
  25. What is a plow? Describe and sketch a picture of one (look on page 69)
  26. What city became a center for astronomy?
  27. Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
  28. What did Nebuchadnezzar build that became famous? (describe)