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

4500 BCE- first people arrive Desert Climate, but good soil Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

– What is important about these two rivers

Agricultural Hearth- irrigation

Fertile Crescent

Sumer

3500 BCE- considered 1st CIVILIZATION Characteristics of Civilization

– Advanced Cities– Specialization of Workers– Complex institutions– Record Keeping– Advanced Technology

Date:______ Mesopotamia

Fertile Crescent

Rivers = life -----

4500 BCE- first people arrive

Desert Climate, but good soil

Tigris & Euphrates RiversWhat is important about these two rivers

Sumer

Characteristics of Civilization

3500 BCE- considered 1st CIVILIZATIONAdvanced Cities

Specialization of Workers

Complex institutions

Record Keeping

Advanced Technology

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

Sumer

Babylon

2000 BCE invaded Sumer Hammurabi- ruler 1792-1750 BCE

– 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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1. Tigris & Euphoria

2. Tiger & Euphrates

3. Tigris & Euphrates

4. Tiger & Euphrates

What valuable resource did the Fertile Crescent contain which allowed people to build a civilization?

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1. Oil

2. Gold

3. Fertile Soil

4. Diamonds

What is the name given to the entire region located around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

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1. Iraq

2. Mesopotamia

3. Iran

4. Sumer

Which was the 1st Civilization?

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1. Summer

2. Babylonia

3. Babylon

4. Sumer

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a civilization?

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1. Advanced Cities

2. Advanced Technology

3. Advanced Shuttles

4. Record Keeping

What leader created the first written laws?

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1. Hammurabi

2. Hamburger

3. Jericho

4. Sumerian

What was the dominant type of religion found in Sumer and Babylon?

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1. Animistic

2. Polytheistic

3. Monotheistic

4. Agnostic

What is the best definition of a City-State?

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1. City ran as a state

2. State ran as a city

3. City ran into the ground

4. City of justice

What does BCE stand for?

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1. Before Coming to Era

2. Beyond Common Era

3. Beginning of Common Era

4. Before Common Era

Religion & government are examples of what characteristic of a civilization?

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1. Advanced Cities

2. Specialization of Workers

3. Advanced Technology

4. Complex Institutions