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WorksheetsSOCIAL STUDIES REVIEW
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 40mins
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of the sun
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of the underworld
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of the air
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of wisdom
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of heaven
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
goddess of writing
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
goddess of love and war
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
goddess of the underworld
(a)
Write the name of the correct Sumerian god or goddess:
god of the moon
(a)
Label the Sumerian Social Order
correctly:
The worship of many gods.
(a)
Sumerians writing developed from early symbols called ...
(HINT - It is writing using pictures)
(a)
Match to complete the sentences:
Sumerians' clay tablet describes a number of ...
sheep & goats
Like today, Sumerian children went to school to learn to...
read and write
Phoenicia had few resources.
Unlike areas farther inland, Phoenicia lacked good...
farmland
_____ helped the spread of the Phoenician culture since it allowed access to many valuable resources and was faster.
sea travel
Sumerian writers used clay tablets with a special tool called ______ to record their ______.
(a)
Sumerians were the first people in Mesopotamia to build large temples called:
(a)
(c 1811-1750 B.C.) Babylonian ruler, he was a brilliant military leader who brought all of Mesopotamia into the Babylonian Empire:
(a)
A set of laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
Write its name and how many laws it has.
(a)
(died c. 562 BC)
Chaldean king, he rebuilt Babylon into a beautiful city, which features the famed Hanging Gardens.
(a)
Match the following vocabulary words with their definitions:
An organized society within a specific area.
civilization
A way of supplying water to an area or land.
irrigation
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks left behind by rivers.
silt
Land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler.
empire
Match to complete some of the laws of Hammurabi's Code:
222. If he were a freed man, he...
shall pay three shekels.
223. If he were a slave, his owner...
shall pay two shekels at that time.
196.If a man put out the eye of another man,
his eye shall be put out.
199. If a man put out the eye of a man's slave, or break his bone,
he shall pay half of its value.
The world's first system of writing.
(a)
Read. Choose which best completes the law of Hammurabi's Code:
198. If he puts out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he...
shall pay him 5 shekels in money.
shall pay one gold mine.
shall pay three shekels.
shall pay half of its value.
Order law 48 of Hammurabi's Code:
if any one owe debt for a loan,
and a storm prostrates the grain, of the harvest fall,
or the grain does not grow for lack of water in that year,
he need not give his creditor grain,
he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.
Match the following vocabulary words with their definitions:
Persian Emperor who created the Persian Empire by conquering most of southwest Asia.
Cyrus The Great
Persian Emperor who
returned order to the Persian Empire after a period of rebellion.
Darius I
Son of Darius I who led the Persians against the Greeks in battle of Salamis, which ended the Persian Wars.
Xerses I
It is one of the most ancient religions in the world:
(a)
A Persian prophet and reformer who founded the religion of Zoroastrianism.
(a)
Long poems that tell the stories of heroes.
(a)
Major Zoroastrianism beliefs include:
(choose all that apply)
Humans do not have the freedom to choose between good and evil.
There is one Supreme God, but there are also a number of divinities that represent God qualities.
The world is a "battleground" between good and evil forces.
To choose good, people must choose five tools:
good mind, desire, conscience, insight and wisdom.
Phoenician traders even passed through the (a) to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
Choose the Early River Valley civilizations:
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Persia
China
Indus Valley
The holy book, (a) , of Zoroastrianism is an important example of early Persian literature.
The Athenian army had only about 11,000 soldiers, while the Persians had about 15,000.
Who won the battle?
Persians won the battle because they had better weapons and more soldiers.
Persians won the battle because they had better weapons and clever leaders.
Greeks won the battle because they had better weapons and clever leaders.
Greeks won the battle because Persians their lost resources and died.
Match the vocabulary words with their definitions:
A city area.
urban
A country side area.
rural
King of Uruk, a city state in the summer, he became a legend figure in Sumerian culture.
Gilgamesh
King of Akkad, a land north of Summer, he built the world's first empire after defeating Summer and northern Mesopotamia.
Sargon
A large area of rich, or fertile farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
(a)
Choose the correct sentence:
Scribes performed religious ceremonies and priests were writers.
Priests performed religious ceremonies and scribes were writers.
Cyrus was successful in his conquests because his army was ...
(Choose all that apply)
strong & loyal
young & advanced
brave & skillful
Reorder how the Persian Army worked together.
At the heart of the Persian army were the Immortals, 10,000 soldiers chosen for their bravery and skill.
In addition to the Immortals, the army had a powerful cavalry.
Cyrus used his cavalry to charge the enemy and shoot at them with arrows.
This strategy weakened the enemy before the Immortals attacked.
Working together, the cavalry and the Immortals could defeat almost any foe.
Buildings and art were made using wood from this tree:
(a)
