| The Mother Civilization | ||||
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Sumer
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| #2 | Which empire enslaved Catel Hayuk for the first time in it's history? |
Assyrians.
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| #3 | Name the five large bodies of water on this map. |
Black Sea, Red sea
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| #4 | What civilization/empire is shown by this map?
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Neo-Babylonian.
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| #5 | Is Jericho part of the Fertile Crescent? |
Yup.
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| Sumer | ||||
| #1 | The need to grow large amounts of food forced the Sumerians to do things in new ways or create many important__________________________________? |
Innovations or inventions. |
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| #2 | Circa, what year did Sumer become a civilization with many city-states?
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3,000 B.C. |
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| #3 | What is it called when a large job is split up to make it easier to do? |
Division of Labor
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This! A picture/mosaic of a victorious king and the levels of his society!
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| #5 | List six inventions of Sumer.
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Wheeled carts canals dams reservoirs store houses cunieform Kings slavery money ziggerauts Taxes Monarchy
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| Getting Civilized | ||||
| #1 | What was an "En" and what where its's powers?
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King of Sumer and he led the army, religion and public events. Women were not permitted to do any of that.
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A Bureaucracy
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| #3 | To help keep track of crop surpluses and taxes the Sumerians invented this system of improved pictographs called _________________________________. |
Cuneiform.
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| #4 | What were the divisions in Sumerian Society called?___________________. Name them. |
Classes. Unskilled or Slave, Middle( Preists soldiers,traders and farmers) and Ruling.
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| #5 | Hammurabi's Code had many laws...how many were there? Additionally, what was the overall-guiding principle for writing laws down for the first time ever? Hammurabi's.
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282 (ruthless laws)To bring peace and Justice to all.
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| Conquests | ||
| #1 | What leader from Central Mesopotamia invaded and conquered the Sumerian Civilazation? |
Sargon......The Great! |
| #2 | How did the Akkadian Empire get it's name?
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Sargon's home city of Akkad was it's capital.
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| #3 | What great first ruler of the Amorites, based in old Babylon, created rules for his centralized government called The:____________________________________?
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The Code of Hammurabi
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| #4 | When was Mesopotamia was conquered by two different invading mountain-based groups of invaders at the same time...which group controlled the Northern part, and which group the southern portion?
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Kassites the Southern. |
| #5 | From 3200 B.C. to 500 B.C. list the empires of Mesopotamia in their proper chronlogigical order from first to most recent or last.
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Sumerian...Akkadian...Babylonian..Hittite/Kassite..Assyrian...Neo-Babylonian.
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| Run! Assyrians! | ||||
| #1 | Who taught the assyrian army how to fight wars? |
Hittites!
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| #2 | What Assyrian king took his Hittite trained army to invade ancient Israel and conquer 40 cities and take 200,000 slaves?
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Sennacherib.
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Driver had passenger like an archer. Drove at full speed. Added bridles to control horses. Wheels had bronze/metal support...drove at top speeds into battle. |
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| #4 | Did the Assyrian Empire included: Mesopotamia, Catel Hayuk, The Fertile Crescent and____________________________.
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The Nile River Valley or Egypt.
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| #5 | What Neo-Babylonian king built The Tower of Babel and The Gardens of Babylon circa 600B.C.? And, oh yes...you must spell out his name correctly!
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Nebuchadnezzar
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| Final Question | |
Use your handout to translate the correct answer of this question into cuneiform.
What city became the capital of Assyrian Empire and which king ruled it circa 700 B.C. Be careful...spelling counts!?
Tiebreaker: List all the empires that existed in Ancient Mesopotamia from 3200 BC to 500 BC (circa Years) |
Nineveh
Sennachierib
Use your handout to translate the correct answer of this question into cuneiform.
What city became the capital of Sennacherib's Empire?
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Hittites the Northern;
