1. ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
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2. GEOGRAPHY
VOCABULARY
ACHIEVEMENTS
WOMAN
HOTS 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question
NAME THE 2 RIVERS THAT NOURISHED ANCIENT MESOPOTOMIAN CIVILIZATION.

4. WHAT ARE THE TWO RIVERS THAT NOURISHED ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION
TIGRIS AND THE EUPHRATES.

5. WHAT MODERN COUNTRY IS IN THE SAME AREA AS ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

6. Answer 1 – 20 WHAT MODERN COUNTRY IS IN THE SAME AREA AS ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA IRAQ

7. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE WATERWAY TO THE SOUTH OF MESOPOTAMIA?

8. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE WATERWAY TO THE SOUTH OF MESOPOTAMIA
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE WATERWAY TO THE SOUTH OF MESOPOTAMIA ? PERSIAN GULF

9. WHAT IS THE MESOPOTAMIAN NICKNAME WHICH REFERS TO THE GOOD FARM LAND NEAR THE RIVERS AND THE SHAPE OF THIS AREA?

10. WHAT IS THE NICKNAME FOR MESOPOTAMIA THAT REFERS TO WHAT IS THE NICKMANE FOR MESOPOTAMIA THAT REFERS TO THE GOOD FARM LAND NEAR THE RIVERS AND ITS SHAPE? FERTILE CRESCENT

11. EXPLAIN HOW SUMER’S GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCED ITS ABILITY TO DEFEND ITSELF.

12. EXPLAIN HOW SUMER’S GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCED ITS ABILITY TO DEFEND ITSELF
EXPLAIN HOW SUMER’S GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCED ITS ABILITY TO DEFEND ITSELF. SUMER HAD NO NATURAL BOUNDARIES, LARGE SEAS OR MOUNTAINS TO PROTECT IT SO IT WAS OFTEN UNDER ATTACK.

13. A PROFESSIONSAL WRITER FOR THE GOVERNMENTS, TEMPLES AND BUSINESS

14. Answer 2 – 10A PROFESSIONAL WRITER FOR GOVERNMENT, THE TEMPLES AND BUSINESS. SCRIBE

15. A POLITICAL UNIT CONSISTING OF A CITY AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE

16. Answer 2 – 20 A POLTICAL UNIT CONSISTING OF A CITY AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY SIDE CITY-STATE

17. WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF A SUMERIAN CITY-STATE

18. WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF A SUMERIAN CITY-STATE?
ZIGGURAT

19. GIFTS AND MONEY DEMANDED FROM A RULER

20. GIFTS AND MONEY DEMANDED FROM A RULER
TRIBUTE

21. A SOCIETY WHICH HAS A SOPHISTICATED GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE AND A KNOWLEDGE OF MATHMATICS, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.

22. A SOCIETY THAT HAS A SOPHISTICATED GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE AND A KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE, MATHMATICS AND THE ARTS.
CIVILIZATION

23. THIS SUMERIAN ACHEIVEMENT CAUSES US TO CLASSIFY IT AS PART OF HISTORY, NOT PREHISTORY

24. THIS SUMERIAN ACHEIVEMENT CAUSES US TO CLASSIFY IT AS PART OF HISTORY, NOT PREHISTORY
WRITING, CUNEIFORM

25. NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT GOVERNMENT

26. NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO GOVERNMENT
THE CODE OF HAMMURABI

27. NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

28. NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
WHEEL, SAIL, CHARIOT

29. NAME A SUMERIAN ACHEIVMENT RELATED TO IRRIGATION

30. NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO IRRIGATION
BASIN, LEVEE, CANALS

31. NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO MEDICINE

32. NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO MEDICINE
BRAIN SURGERY

33. EXPLAIN ONE WAY IN WHICH THE CODE OF HAMMURABI PROTECTED WOMEN

34. THEY COULD CONTROL PROPERTY DURING THEIR LIFETIME.
EXPLAIN ONE WAY IN WHICH MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN WERE PROTECTED BY THE CODE OF HAMMURABI.
THEY COULD CONTROL PROPERTY DURING THEIR LIFETIME.
WOMAN COULD CHOOSE TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BY THEIR HUSBANDS OR THEIR FAMILIES WHEN SICK AND TOOK THEIR DOWRY WITH THEM IF THEIR FAMILIES WHERE LOOKING AFTER THEM.

35. PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE IN WHICH WOMAN HAD ECONOMIC POWER

36. PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE IN WHICH SUMERIAN WOMAN HAD ECONOMIC POWER SOME WOMAN OWNED AND CONTROLLED BUSINESSES LIKE THE ASSYRIAN WOMAN IN THE READING.

37. WHAT WERE 2 POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL JOBS THAT SOME MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN HAD?

38. WHAT WERE SOME POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL JOBS THAT SOME MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN HAD?
QUEEN AND PRIESTESS

39. HOW WERE SLAVE WOMEN TREATED?

40. HOW WERE SUMERIAN SLAVE WOMEN TREATED?
FEMALE SLAVES OF THE QUEEN WERE KILLED AND BURIED WITH HER TO SERVE IN THE NEXT LIFE

41. NAME 2 WAYS IN WHICH MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN WERE NOT PROTECTED BY THE CODE OF HAMMURABI.

42. NAME 2 WAYS IN WHICH MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN WERE NOT PROTECTED BY THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
WOMAN WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MATTERS OF ADULTARY IF THE HUSBAND CHOSE TO DO THIS.
WOMAN WHO DISGRACED THEIR HUSBANDS WERE DISCARDED AND MADE TO BE SLAVES IN THEIR HUSBANDS HOUSEHOLD.
WOMAN COULD NOT DETERMINE WHO TO LEAVE THEIR PROPERTY TO; IT WOULD GO TO THE MALES IN THE FAMILY AFTER HER DEATH.

43. EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF 3 SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS OUR CIVILIZATON

44. EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF 3 SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS ON CIVILIZATION ARCH, WRITING,MATH SYSTEM BASED ON 60

45. EXPLAIN 2 WAYS IN WHICH SUMERIAN GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCED THEIR OUTLOOK ON LIFE

46. EXPLAIN 2 WAYS IN WHICH SUMERIAN GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCED THEIR OUTLOOK ON LIFE.
THE LACK OF NATURAL BOUNDARIES WHICH LED TO FREQUENT ENEMY INVASIONS AND THE DIFFICULT FLOODS FROM THE RIVERS INFLUENCED THE PESSIMISTIC ATTITUDE IN THE END OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. IMMORTALITY IS SNATCHED FROM GILGAMESH BY A SNAKE AFTER A LONG JOURNEY FULL OF CHALLENGES.
SUMERIANS BELIEVED THAT THE AFTERLIFE WAS A LAND OF SHADOWS.

47. WHAT VALUES WHERE IMPORTANT TO THE SUMERIANS AS EXEMPLEFIED BY ENKIDU, GILGAMESH AND HARIM?

48. WHAT VALUES WERE IMPORTANT TO THE MESOPOTAMIANS AND WERE EXEMPLIFIED BY GILGAMESH, ENKIDU AND HARIM?
PRIVATE PROPERTY
BRAVERY
LOYALTY
COMPASSION
COURAGE
CULTURE
DIPLOMACY
WISDOM

49. EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE SUMERIAN TABLET SCHOOLS

50. EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE SUMERIAN TABLET SCHOOLS
SUMERIANS MADE THE MOST OF SCARCE RESOURCES BY EDUCATING JUST A PORTION OF THEIR POPULATION, THE SONS OF THE WEALTHY. THEY PROMOTED AND PRESERVED CIVILIZATION BY TEACHING CUNEIFORM, MATHMATICS, INCLUDING A NUMBER SYSTEM BASED ON 60 AND REENFORCED THE VALUES OF THEIR CIVILIZATION BY STUDYING THE EPIC, GILGAMESH.

51. SCHOOLS CONT. . .
THE WEAKNESSES OF SUMERIAN SCHOOLS WERE THAT THEY EXCLUDED MOST PEOPLE INCLUDING WOMAN AND THE POOR.
THIS LEAD TO A PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY.
SUMERIAN SCHOOLS USED CORPORAL PUNISHMENT WHICH DID NOT RECOGNIZE HUMAN RIGHTS.
BRIBES TO TEACHERS WOULD SOMETIMES GET YOU GOOD GRADES.
LITTLE CRITICAL THINKING WAS TAUGHT IN SUMERIAN SCHOOLS.

52. COMPARE THE CODE OF HAMMURABI TO AMERICAN LAW USING 3 EXAMPLES
COMPARE THE CODE OF HAMMURABI TO AMERICAN LAW USING 3 EXAMPLES. DEFEND ONE CIVILIZATION’S LEGAL SYSEM.

53. TRIAL BY ORDEAL – Although it was not based
COMPARE THE CODE OF HAMMURABI TO AMERICA’S LAWS. USING 3 EXAMPLES DEFEND ONE OF THESE SYSTEMS.
8TH AMENDMENT PROTECTS AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN THE USA.
TRIAL BY ORDEAL – Although it was not based
on evidence related to the crime it did
Bring about a resolution and avoided feuds.
The decision was quick and made by a judge in
Mesopotamia