1. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent & Early African Civilization
Test Review
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
&
Early African Civilization

2. The Fertile Crescent Know the Fertile Crescent Vocabulary to Know:
Where is it located?
What made it such a valuable piece of land?
Vocabulary to Know:
Silt
Canals
Irrigation
Surplus

3. Mesopotamia Know the location of Mesopotamia
Know the Greek meaning of Mesopotamia
Know what the development of irrigation did for the Sumerian people
Know how division of labor affected Sumerian society.
Know Sumer
What was Sumer?
Sumer was considered a city-state

4. Mesopotamia Know the Akkadian Empire
Who ruled the Akkadian Empire?
Know the Religion that shaped the Sumerian society
Know the Sumerians practiced polytheism
Know what a priest is
Understand social hierarchy
Vocabulary:
Empire
Rural
Urban

5. Sumerian Achievements
Be able to identify some of the many achievements the Sumerians made
Ex:
The invention of writing
Technical advances made with the wheel
Arts
Vocabulary:
Cuneiform
Pictographs
Scribe
Epics
Architecture
Ziggurat

6. Later Peoples of the Fertile Crescent
Know who the Babylonians were
Who was their ruler?
Know the first code of laws ever created.
Know what society created the first known alphabet.
Vocab:
Chariot
Monarch

7. Early African Civilization
Be familiar with Africa’s geography (notes taken in class)
Be able to identify Africa’s resources
Know how Early Africans valued family
People who believed in animism believed what?
Be familiar with the rise and fall of the Ghana Empire (notes taken in class)
Know the connection the Ghana Empire had with trade

8. Early African Civilization
Be able to identify later African Empires
Vocabulary
Rifts
Sahel
Savannah
Silent barter
Be familiar with these important people
Mansa Musa
Askia the Great
Tunka Manin