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7th Grade Social Studies
Chapter Outline
Mesopotamia and The Fertile Crescent
Name _____________________________________
Pd._____
1. Be able to define the following words:
scribe
alphabet
famine
ziggurat
empire
polytheism
prophet
code/ law
cuneiform
irrigation
priests
social hierarchy
architecture monarch
Dead Sea Scrolls
Rabbis
city-state
myth
monotheism
surplus
rural
pictographs
Diaspora
Hammurabi’s Code
Zealots
patriarch
silt
canals
division of labor
urban
epics
synagogue
Ten Commandments
2. Be able to describe the important contributions of the following empires:
Sumer
Akkad
Phoenicians
Babylon
Assyria
Persians
Palestine/ Canaan
3. Identify the following leaders/ important figures:
Sargon I
Gilgamesh
David
Nebuchadnezzar
Debora
Ashurbanipal
Abraham
Solomon
Hammurabi
Moses
Saul
Sennacherib
4. Identify the boundaries and extent of the Fertile Crescent.
5. Compare how each civilization/ empire survived, traded, expanded and died down.
6. Explain the significance of religion in each empire, including the founding patriarchs.
Understand the religious books: Torah, Talmud, Bible and the Koran.
foundations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
religion.
Look at the
Identify the gods/ goddess of each