Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/anchsthc.html#mesop
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/NEAREAST/homepg.html
1. What is the ancient near east called? ____________________________
2. What happened first in the Near East ____________________________
Click on statue
3. What do priests and priestesses perform? ___________________________
4. What is created to serve religion ______________________________
Back Click on Tablet
5. What is the wedge shaped writing called? ___________________________
Click on Cuneiform
6. Why was writing developed? ___________________________________
7. What caused the writing to be made in wedged shapes? _____________________________
8. What were the schools called? ________________________________
Back arrow on website 2 times, Click law codes picture
9. Who caused a code of laws to be written on a stone stele? ______________________________
10. From whom did the king get the laws? _________________________
11. What was the purpose of the laws? ___________________________________
Click on People at the bottom
12. The earliest farmers first depended upon _______to grow crops and then used
________________________ to increase crop production.
13. What could be done to wheat with the mortar and grinding stone? _______________________
14. To what were sharp blades of flint attached to cut grain? ___________________________
Mythology
15. Name one of the earliest fertility goddesses._____________________
16. What god was represented by the sickle and the circle? ____________________________
Daily Life
17. Why is it difficult to find examples of metal tools? ___________________________
Burial and Death
18. The dead were buried rather than _____________________
back to beginning
Iraq: Ancient Mesopotamia http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_iraq.htm
19. Which two rivers brought water for crops, water to flood, and left silt for fertilizer?
_______________________ _______________________
20. What was southern Mesopotamia called? __________________
21. Collective management of the land and water climate caused the development
of a process of ______________________ in the cities.
22. What were the Sumerians able to pass on to future generations through writing.
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23. What Sumerian literature has survived to today? _________________________
24. In what were the priests temples located? _________________________
25. What number was sacred to the Sumerians and used for time and circles? _______
26. What vehicle did the Sumerians develop? _______________________________
27. What was made from melting tin and copper together? ____________________
28. Who formed and empire and tried to stop the Sumerian city states from fighting?
_________________________
29. What city did the Amorites and Elamites use as their capital? _____________________
30. Who conquered the Babylonians partly because they dominated iron making?_________________
31. Which people from the northern plateau conquered Babylon, Syria, and Phoenicia? ______________
32. Who overcame the Assyrians, destroyed Jerusalem, took the Jews into captivity, and
built the Hanging Gardens? ____________________________
Ziggurat http://www.livius.org/za-zn/ziggurat/ziggurat.html
33. How are ziggurats different than pyramids?
34. How is ziggurat translated? ________________________
35. Where was the shrine of Anu? ______________________
36. What is another name for the Etemenanki of Babylon? ___________________