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Chapter 3 Study Guide
Oakbrook Middle School
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History
6th Grade
10/04/2008

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Which two land masses gave Mesopotamia its name?
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Tigris and Euphrates
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Why did Mesopotamians build canals?
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Mesopotamians built canals to distribute water throughout the land, uniting thousands of villagers
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Why did city-states fight each other for farmland?
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City-states began to fight each other for supremacy over fertile farmland.
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What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states?
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Ziggurats "to build on a raised area" are temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Iran, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
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Who served as the link between the Sumerians and the gods?
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priests and priestesses
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Describe cuneiform.
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The term used to describe early writing in the Middle East in which wedge-shaped impressions are left on a clay tablet
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What were the most likely reason the ziggurats were tall?
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Worship of the gods that lived on top
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Describe the technology the Hittites and Assyrians used in battle.
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Hittites used chariots. Assyrians used iron weapons.
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Describe the relationship between trade and the spread
of the Phoenician alphabet?
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The Phoenicians were the first state level society to make extensive use of the alphabet, and the Phoenician alphabet is considered to be the ancestor of all modern alphabets. It was adopted by the Aramaeans, who spread it through the ancient Near East, which led to the Hebrew, Indian and Arabic alphabets. And through their maritime trade, the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to North Africa and Europe where it was adopted by the Greeks and ultimately by all European languages.
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Describe the resource for which Phoenicia was well known.
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The purple cloth of Tyre in Phoenicia was well known far and wide and long associated with royalty
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Compare and Contrast Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar.
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Both men were kings of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar rebuit Babylon. Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar used pagan religion to unite their control. Hammurabi made specific laws.
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What factor may have limited the growth of Sargon’s empire?
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Describe the Indus Valley Cities.
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What two river valleys were the early Chinese civilizations located among?
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Yellow and Yangzi Rivers
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What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
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"between the rivers"
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Define: rural
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countryside
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Define: empire
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a government under control of an empire or empress
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Define: pictograph
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a picture representing a word or idea
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Define: chariot
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a light, two wheeled vehicle for one person
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Define: epics
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a literary or dramatic composition that resemples an extended narrative poem celebrating heoric feats
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Define: alphabet
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any such system for representing sounds of a language
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Define: fertile cresent
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a cresent shaped region in the Middle East
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Define: cuneiform
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world's first system of writing
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Define: social hierachy
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social structure in which mature or aggressive individuals maintain dominance over younger or less aggressive individuals
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Define: irrigation
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the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops
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define: urban
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living in a city
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Define: monarch
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ruler or king
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Define: polytheism
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the worship of many gods
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