*PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS*
*KEY TERMS*
*GEOGRAPHY & EARLY HISTORY*
*THE SUMERIANS*
*MESOPOTAMIAN EMPIRES*
100
This is what would happen to a woman if she entered a tavern to drink.
What is that she would be burned to death? (Part I, #5)
100
This is a large territory or group of many territories governed by one rule.
What is an empire? (Part II, #9)
100
True or False: The first civilizations in Mesopotamia began on the plain between the Euphrates River and the Mediterranean Sea?
What is FALSE? (Part III, #1)
100
This is why the Sumerians ORIGINALLY invented a writing system.
What is to keep track of their trades/goods? (Part III, #8)
100
True or False: Assyrian kings divided their empire into provinces to make governing such a large area more manageable?
What is TRUE? (Part III, #13)
200
According to Hammurabi, this is who gave him the power to "rule over men."
Who is Marduk? (Part I, #1)
200
This is a system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is cuneiform? (Part II, #8)
200
True or False: The people of Mesopotamia were polytheists?
What is TRUE? (Part III, #6)
200
True or False:Sumer is a city-state in southeast Mesopotamia?
What is FALSE? (Part III, #4)
200
This is why the New Babylonian Empire was more prosperous/wealthier than the Assyrian Empire had been.
What is because the New Babylonian Empire used the trade route that ran through it to buy, sell, and trade goods? (Part III, #16)
300
This is the law that requires a witness to be present and a contract to be drawn up when valuable items are being given away.
What is Law 122? (Part I, #3)
300
This is the belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism? (Part II, #6)
300
This is how seasonal flooding was beneficial/helpful to Mesopotamian farmers.
What is that the floodwaters carried silt, fine particles of soil that were very useful for farming? (Part III, #3)
300
These are some inventions and/or technologies that are attributed to the Sumerians.
What are the wheel; the sailboat; cuneiform/writing; methods of irrigation; the 60-minute hour, 60-second minute, and 12-month calendar? (Part III, #9)
300
This is who created the world's first empire AND how he did it.
Who is Sargon I of Akkad AND what is by marching his army southward into Sumer and conquering each of the Sumerian city-states? (Part III, #10)
400
This is the penalty for breaking Law 186.
What is that the person's eye shall be put out? (Part I, #7)
400
This is a system/technology that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams; first used by Sumerian farmers.
What is irrigation? (Part II, #2)
400
This is a system of rule in which the king's oldest male heir takes the throne upon the king's death.
What is hereditary rule? (Part III, #7)
400
This is what was located in the center of a typical Sumerian city-state.
What is they city-state's ziggurat/temple? (Part III, #5)
400
These are tactics/technologies used by the Assyrian Empire to build its large and powerful military.
What are organizing the army into three branches (infantry; cavalry; and charioteers); using iron weapons; AND setting victims' crops and homes on fire? (Part III, #12)
500
This is who would be put to death when property was stolen from a temple or court.
Who are the person who stole AND the person who received the stolen goods? (Part I, #6)
500
This is the curving strip of good farmland that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf; Mesopotamia is located in the eastern part of this.
What is the Fertile Crescent? (Part II, #1
500
This is how the Mesopotamian farmers "controlled" the seasonal floods.
What is by building dams; digging canals that let the water flow from the rivers to the fields; AND developing methods of irrigation? (Part III, #2)
500
This is how Hammurabi's Code was different from law codes that had come before it.
What is that it listed a punishment for each crime; it was the first WRITTEN code of laws; AND it was stricter than the old Sumerian law? (Part III, #11)
500
This is why the Chaldeans were able to seize power from the Assyrians around 627 B.C.
What is because the Assyrian empire had been weakened by rebellion; the Assyrian king had died without a male heir, prompting competition for the throne among powerful Assyrians; AND Nabopolassar led the Chaldeans and Medes in a successful revolt against the Assyrians? (Part III, #14)