Mesopotamia
Describe the location of Mesopotamia
and discuss the reasoning for its
location and why the cultural hearths
located there have endured or
declined throughout history
- GHW 1.1 & 1.2
The Fertile Crescent
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4500 BCE- first people arrive
Desert Climate, but good soil
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
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What is important about these two rivers
Agricultural Hearth- irrigation
Fertile Crescent
Sumer
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3500 BCE- considered 1st CIVILIZATION
Characteristics of Civilization
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Advanced Cities
Specialization of Workers
Complex institutions
Record Keeping
Advanced Technology
Date:______ Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
4500 BCE- first people arrive
Desert Climate, but good soil
Rivers = life ----- Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
What is important about these two rivers
Sumer
Characteristics of
Civilization
3500 BCE- considered 1st CIVILIZATION
Advanced Cities
Specialization of Workers
Complex institutions
Record Keeping
Advanced Technology
Sumer
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Built many cities that shared culture but
different governments
“City-States”
Dynasties- passed power on to sons
Spread of Culture
Polytheistic
Class System: Priests & Kings were highest
Babylon
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2000 BCE invaded Sumer
Hammurabi- ruler 1792-1750 BCE
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Created 282 laws (Hammurabi’s Code)
Applied to everyone/ different punishment for
different classes
Eye for an Eye
Gov’t became responsible for society
The Fertile Crescent is located
between which two rivers?
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2.
3.
4.
Tigris & Euphoria
Tiger & Euphrates
Tigris & Euphrates
Tiger & Euphrates
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1
0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What valuable resource did the Fertile
Crescent contain which allowed people
to build a civilization?
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2.
3.
4.
Oil
Gold
Fertile Soil
Diamonds
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0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What is the name given to the entire
region located around the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers?
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2.
3.
4.
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Iran
Sumer
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0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
Which was the 1st Civilization?
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2.
3.
4.
Summer
Babylonia
Babylon
Sumer
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1
0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
Which of the following is not a
characteristic of a civilization?
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2.
3.
4.
Advanced Cities
Advanced
Technology
Advanced Shuttles
Record Keeping
0%
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0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What leader created the first written
laws?
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2.
3.
4.
Hammurabi
Hamburger
Jericho
Sumerian
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1
0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What was the dominant type of religion
found in Sumer and Babylon?
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2.
3.
4.
Animistic
Polytheistic
Monotheistic
Agnostic
0%
1
0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What is the best definition of a CityState?
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2.
3.
4.
City ran as a state
State ran as a city
City ran into the
ground
City of justice
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0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
What does BCE stand for?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Before Coming to
Era
Beyond Common
Era
Beginning of
Common Era
Before Common Era
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0%
2
0%
3
0%
4
Religion & government are examples
of what characteristic of a civilization?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Advanced Cities
Specialization of
Workers
Advanced
Technology
Complex Institutions
0%
1
0%
2
0%
3
0%
4