Mesopotamia Society
Leadership
& The Elite
Discovery Education 3.2
Religion
Social
Pyramid
Conquering
Mesopotamia
A Series of
Empires (1)
A Series of
Empires (2)
1. What did
Mesopotamians
believe in?
1. What is
specialization of
labor?
1. Who are the
1. What did made
two most powerful Mesopotamia
in Mesopotamia? rich?
1. What does
patriarchal
society mean?
1. What did an
irrigation system
do?
1. Who took
power after the
fall of the
Babylonia?
2. What other
civilizations did
Mesopotamia
trade with?
2. How was
women role
defined?
2. What did the 2
rivers further
enrich?
1. Who was the
king of Kish and
later the
Akkadian
Empire?
2.How long did
the Akkadian
Empire last?
2. What does
Polytheism
mean?
2. What did
specialization of
labor lead to?
2. How as the
king in charge of
the ziggurats?
3. What is a
ziggurat?
3. Who was at the 3. How did the
top of the social
king provide
pyramid?
physical safety?
3. What jobs did
craftspeople do?
3. What were
women taught to
do?
3. What was the
first city-state?
3. Who was the
king of Babylon?
3. What caused
the Assyrian army
to loose control?
4. Who was it
built for?
4. Who was at the
bottom?
Working
class &
Enslaved
The Role
of Women
Name: ____________________________
2. What was the
Assyrian empire
good at?
4. How long after
Akkadian?
5. What would the 5. Which
god do for the
occupations were
city?
in the middle?
4. What did the
4. What was the
king’s officials do? writing system
called?
4. Could women
pick their
husbands?
4. Why would citystates fight each
other?
5. What is
Hammurabi
known for?
4. What empire
replaced the
Assyrian empire?
6. Who made
offerings to the
gods or
goddesses?
6. Which group
was the largest?
5. What was the
job of the priests?
5. What did the
farmers get from
the king in return
for crops?
5. What would
happen if a
women left her
husband?
5. What were the
Sumerian citystates connected
by?
6. Who
conquered the
Babylonian
empire?
5. What did
Nebuchandnezzar
rebuild?
7. Who did the
land and their
work belong to?
7. Could children
be something
different than
their parents?
6. Who did the
priest make
offerings to?
6. What 3 ways
could you
become
enslaved?
6. What rights did
women have?
6. What 3 citystates rule
Mesopotamia?
7. What year did
the Babylonian
empire last to?
6. Who conquered
the Chaldean
Empire?
Religion
Social
Pyramid
Leadership
& The Elite
Working
class &
Enslaved
The Role
of Women
Conquering
Mesopotamia
A Series of
Empires (1)
A Series of
Empires (2)
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