Worksheetsearly mesopotamia and early china
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 18mins
Why it matters now ?
The development of this civilization reflects a settlement pattern that has occurred repeatedly throughout history
the devlopment of the place of the hitorical thing
the devlopment of the history's price in the country
The devlopment of the language of the country
Are these from the terms and names ?
Fertile Crescent
Dikes
Ziggurats
True
False
•when did the first civlization began
(a)
who was a ruler who attacked
and defeated the Sumerians.
Later he took control over
Mesopotamia.
He built a capital city called
Akkad. Akkadians ruled
Mesopotamia for 200 years.
(a)
Babylonians,He is famous for writing down all the Babylonian laws. He changed
some of Sumerian & Akkadian rules and made them part of his
laws.
His collection of more than 250 laws was known as the
(a)
It contained a range of possible crimes and the
punishments that will be received by those who
commit those crimes.
The code did not treat people equally, some people
had more rights than others.
For example, Slaves were not treated by the laws
the same as free-born people and the punishments
were too harsh.
Other
IS THIS THE CODE OF HUMMURABI
true
false
controlled the Fertile Crescent and the Nile River for
150 years.
This Empire had many different groups living in it.
They spoke many different languages.
They were known for being cruel
Many people celebrated when their empire ended (who did these things)
hummurabi
Assiyrians
sargon
Did phoenicians do it ?
Lived in the western edge of the Fertile Crescent.
They built boats and sailed as traders.
They learned to study the stars so they can sail at night.
They developed a simple alphabet of 22 letters unlike the cuneiform
that had hundreds of letters.
True
False
•Chinese civilization began after the Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations.
••The story of early China was mixed with legends. (a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated).
••Archaeologists proved historians wrong, (as historians didn’t believe the legends), when they proved that many of the old stories are true. They did this by digging up old cities, tools and bones. This was the ...... city
1st city
2end city
3rd city
4th city
•That info is for wich new city•The earliest Chinese cities were Yangshao and Longshan.
••People worked as farmers along the Huang He in these cities.
••The Huang He is not a deep river and the land beside it was flat, So the river often flooded destroying the villages near it.
••That’s why the Huang He was called “China’s Sorrow”.
••People of Yangshao and Longshan were well known for their pottery.
••Yangshao people made red pottery and Longshan were famous for their black pottery
2nd
3rd
1st
4th
wich were ?•were more advanced than other cities.
•The Shang was a dynasty ( family of Kings), they came to power in 1750 B.C.
•Tang was their first leader.
•Many artifacts were dug up from their capital city YIN. They discovered beautiful objects made from BRONZE ( copper and tin mixed together).
•The Shang created picture writing which contained 1000s of symbols.
•One way they used this picture writing was to tell the future.
•Like Egyptians the Shang used to burry their kings with their belongings or objects they might need in their next life.
the shang
hummurabi
zaylon
what is a Oracle Bone
It's a bone who they teach writing in
It's a bone they write on it
it's a bone for telling the history
it's a bone who tells the future
who used to carve ?
(a) used to carve on animals bones or shells questions such as “will the king
have a son?” or “Will I have a good day hunting”.
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•After the Shang had lost power on 1027 B.C., the Zhou took over.
•They invaded from the west and set up a new dynasty.
•They stayed in control for 200 years.
•The Zhou rulers acted as if they owned all lands, so they would give lands and people to relatives and army leaders.
•So, this created a lot of little kingdoms. These kingdoms had to obey the Zhou king and to pay him money, supply him with soldiers in times of war, too.
•………………….. kept the MANDATE OF HEAVEN for 200 years.
(a)
•………….believed their gods are the ones who put the ruling family in power.
•Whoever held power had the Mandate of Heaven.
•A dynasty could lose the Mandate of Heaven, if the kingdom faced or experienced hard times.
……….would believe that once a kingdom experiences problems, that shows that the gods do not favor this ruling
(a)
•lost the Mandate of Heaven in 771 B.C.
•Many leaders of the little kingdoms didn’t like the harsh rule of the Zhou
•They also fought so many wars, which made the Zhou become more weak.
•At last, an outside army invaded Zhou lands and killed their king.
But that didn’t stop........ . •They moved further east and set up the Eastern ....... Dynasty.
•
HUMMURABI
ZHOU
SANGE
The main idea of early mesoptimia
The earliest civilaztion in china
arose in Mesopotamia and organized into city-states.
The earliest civlization in iraq arose in Mesopotamia and organized into city-states.
The earliest civilization in Asia arose in Mesopotamia and organized into city-states.
thw earlist civliztiin
eurpe arose in Mesopotamia and organized into city-states.
