Mesopotamia Describe the location of Mesopotamia and discuss the reasoning for its location and why the cultural hearths located there have endured or.

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