Unit 4 Mesopotamia Test

How were the gods worshipped by Sumerians related to everyday life?

• Believed gods had power over nature and everyday work.

• Built dams, dug canals, allowing them grow a surplus of food.

• Travel and communication between the cities was difficult.

• Harsh landscape of mudflats and hot deserts

Describe the methods devised by the Mesopotamians to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and improve agriculture.

• Merchants traded wheat, barley, and tools for timber, minerals, and metals.

• Harsh landscape of mudflats and hot deserts

• Believed gods had power over nature and everyday work.

• Built dams, dug canals, allowing them grow a surplus of food.

Describe the geological landscape of Mesopotamia.

• Believed gods had power over nature and everyday work.

• Harsh landscape of mudflats and hot deserts

• Built dams, dug canals, allowing them grow a surplus of food.

• Travel and communication between the cities was difficult.

What did Sumerians trade?

• Merchants traded wheat, barley, and tools for timber, minerals, and metals.

• Harsh landscape of mudflats and hot deserts

• Travel and communication between the cities was difficult.

• Built dams, dug canals, allowing them grow a surplus of food.

Identify important inventions that originated in Sumer.

• Persian Gulf in the east to the Nile River in the west.

• Astronomers mapped the stars, planets, and phases of the moon, invented sundials, and follow a seven-day week.

• The wheel, chariots, sailboat, the wooden plow, the potter’s wheel, and bronze.

• Crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family

Code of Hammurabi deal with these aspects of life.

• Protected the less powerful in society

• The wheel, chariots, sailboat, the wooden plow, the potter’s wheel, and bronze.

• Astronomers mapped the stars, planets, and phases of the moon, invented sundials, and follow a seven-day week.

• Crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family

How did the Code of Hammurabi treat the less powerful segment of society?

• Protected the less powerful in society

• Astronomers mapped the stars, planets, and phases of the moon, invented sundials, and follow a seven-day week.

• The wheel, chariots, sailboat, the wooden plow, the potter’s wheel, and bronze.

• Crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family

What was the location of the Assyrian Empire?

• Astronomers mapped the stars, planets, and phases of the moon, invented sundials, and follow a seven-day week.

• The wheel, chariots, sailboat, the wooden plow, the potter’s wheel, and bronze.

• Persian Gulf in the east to the Nile River in the west.

• Crimes, farming, business, marriage, and the family

What scientific advancements were made by the Chaldeans?

• The wheel, chariots, sailboat, the wooden plow, the potter’s wheel, and bronze.

• Travel and communication between the cities was difficult.

• Believed gods had power over nature and everyday work.

• Astronomers mapped the stars, planets, and phases of the moon, invented sundials, and follow a seven-day week.

How did the growth of surplus food in Mesopotamia lead to the development of Sumer’s first cities?

• Enslaved people who worked for upper class

• Largest group, and it consisted of merchants, farmers, fishers, and artisans.

• Kings, priests, warriors, and government officials

• Not all people needed to farm, so some people became artisans and traded.