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Ancient Mesopotamia

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  • What happened in Summer during Mesopotamia (hint: the weather)?
    little rain, so not a lot of water.
  • Who wrote the legal code for ancient Mesopotamia?
    Hammurabi
  • How were roles different for men and women?
    Men were the head - boys went to school & trained for jobs. Women ran the home and cared for kids. Didn't have many rights, except some rich women
  • Who was Sargon?
    leader of the first empire; conquered the peoples of Mesopotamia
  • What job did most Sumerians have?
    farmers
  • Why did Sumerian city-states go to war with each other?
    wanting more land and territory
  • What strategies did the Assyrian army use?
    robbed, set crops on fire, destroyed towns, forced payments, used iron weapons, drove people from homes
  • Who was the hero of an epic poem?
    Gilgamesh
  • What is a Ziggurat?
    a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
  • What did Sumerians Invent?
    the wheel, the sailboat, the wooden plow, seed drill, calendar, the hour, the second
  • Why was Nineveh important?
    it was the site of one of the world's first libraries
  • Who were in the middle class of ancient Sumer?
    artisans, merchants, farmers, fishers
  • What are some modern countries that were part of the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia)? Name at least 2
    Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
  • Who rebelled against the Assyrians?
    Chaldeans
  • True or Fales: The first Sumerian Kings were probably war heroes
    True
  • True or False? The Assyrian army was about 50,000 soldiers
    True
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