Mesopatamia

Question 1

What are the four problems Neolithic Farmers faced & how did they solve them. (complete sentenses)

Answer 1

1. Food shortage- moved to Mesopotamian plains
2. Uncontroled water- created canals and dams and walls
3. Building and maintaining irrigation system: City-states worked together
4. Attacked by neighbors- created a walled city-state and millitary

Question 2

What are the 6 characteristics of a civilization? (listing is ok)

Answer 2

1. government
2. food supply
3. social levels
4. specilization of labor
5. religion
6. culture

Question 3

What is the standered of Ur? (COMPLETE SENTENSES)

Answer 3

4,500 year old artifact consting of four panels inlaid with lapis lazuli that contains contributions and characteistics of Sumerians and was uncovered in Ur a city state in Summer

Question 4

Arch

Answer 4

Greatest Achitectural achievment

Question 5

City- state

Answer 5

first created in Sumer

Question 6

Cuneiform

Answer 6

highly developed form of writen pictured

Question 7

1. devotional states
2. games
3. irrigation
4. medicine
5. music
6. plow
7. sailboat
8. wheel
9. ziggurat

Answer 7

1. express religious beliefes
2. for good luck and entertainment
3. provide water supplys
4. Natural healing and surgery methods trephination relieves pressure on the brain
5. instumental and vocal music for celibrations
6. provided stable food supply
7. traded textiles for wood spices and yarns
8. Summer’s greatest achevements
9. temple at center of sumerian city state

Question 8

Say what the following things are:

Mesopotamia

Sumer

levees

Curriculum tablet

holy of holies

covenant

Sabbat

smelting

Phoenicians

Answer 8

Awnsers:

“Between the rivers” mondern-day Iraq

Cradle of civilisation

Raised soil that held back water

different text to teach student

a sacred chamber

agreement

day of rest

proses of making iron wepons

“of purple merchants”

Question 9

In what moden country is Mesopotamia located?

Answer 9

Iraq

Question 10

What was the earliest known civilization?

Answer 10

Sumer

Question 11

How did sumerians control the PHYSICAL enviroment?

Answer 11

They controled the rivers.

Question 12

Who replaced the Sumerians?

Answer 12

Sargon 1 of the Akkadins

Question 13

What are Hammurabi’s code for the Babylonians?

Answer 13

Laws

Question 14

Who started one of the worlds first library for the Assyrians?

Answer 14

Ashabonipal

Question 15

What did the Chaldeans call themselves?

Answer 15

Babylonians

Question 16

why did they call themselves that?

Answer 16

they were desended from the babolonis

Question 17

Who built the hanging gardens of babylon?

Answer 17

nebuchadnezzer

Question 18

what was the phoenicians most important gift?

Answer 18

alphebet

Question 19

Major contributions:

1. Sumer
2. Akkadians
3. Babylonians
4. Assyrians
5. Chaldeans
6. Persians
7. Phonicians
8. Hebrews

Answer 19

1. worlds first civilzation
2. invented the stele- worlds first empire
3. first witten code of laws
4. military strategy- wariors
5. hanging gardens
6. roads
7. dye
8. religion