MESOPOTAMIA LESSON 3 REVIEW (9/22)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:

1. What 3 religious groups use the Bible in their religion?
2. What is the Jewish religion called?
3. What was the original language of the Old Testament?
4. What city-state was Abraham from?
5. What was the covenant (promise) God made to Abraham?
6. How many years did Moses and the Israelites wander in the wilderness?
7. What are the first five books of the OT called in Hebrew?
8. The Torah commands that the people practice what, which means worshiping one god.
9. What was the Israelite capital city?
10. In what year was the Northern Kingdom (Israel) conquered? What about the Southern (Judah?)
11. What was this called when many Jews were forced to leave their homes?



ANSWERS:
1. Christians, Jews, Muslims
2. Judaism
3. Hebrew
4. Ur
5. He would be the father of many descendants
6. 40
7. Torah
8. Monotheism
9. Jerusalem
10. 721 BC, 586 BC
11. Diaspora

MESOPOTAMIA LESSON 2 REVIEW (9/17)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:

1. What was Sumerian writing called?
2. What did Cuneiform use instead of pictures (like Hieroglyphics)?
3. What does the word "Cuneiform" mean?
4. What subject besides writing did they have to study in Sumerian writing school?
5. What is a large city and the land around it called?
6. What are 4 ways to compare the Sumerian city-states with the world today?
7. What did the Sumerians build for their gods?
8. What is the famous ziggurat we talked about?
9. How did Hammurabi gain control of Sumer?
10. What was found in 1901 that belonged to Hammurabi?
11. Where would this pillar of laws have been placed?
12. What was the world's largest city around 600 B.C.?


ANSWERS:
1. Cuneiform
2. symbols
3. wedge-shaped
4. Math
5. city-state
6. Large cities then and now, Self governing like our countries today, War between them like wars today, worshiped many gods like our world does today
7. ziggurats
8. Tower of Babel
9. cut off their water supply
10. Code of Hammurabi (pillar of laws)
11. center of town
12. Babylon

MESOPOTAMIA LESSON 1 REVIEW (9/15)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:

1. When did civilization begin in the Fertile Crescent area?
2. What rivers made this area so fertile?
3. What is the land between the 2 rivers called?
4. What country is in the area of Mesopotamia today?
5. What famous Biblical place was most likely in Mesopotamia?
6. Where do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers end?
7. Flooding in Mesopotamia was what?
8. Some areas experienced no flooding and what instead?
9. What did farmers do to control the unpredictable flooding?
10. Know the 7 places on the map of the Fertile Crescent.


ANSWERS:
1. 4000 B.C.
2. Tigris and Euphrates
3. Mesopotamia
4. Iraq
5. Garden of Eden
6. Persian Gulf
7. Unpredictable
8. drought
9. Irrigation
10.

UPCOMING S.S. TESTS

EGYPT VOCAB. TEST TUESDAY (9/9)
EGYPT TEST FRIDAY (9/12)

EGYPT LESSON 6 REVIEW (9/4)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:


1. In Ancient Egypt, your position in society depended on your what?
2. What is this ranking of people called?
3. Who was at the bottom of the Social Pyramid?
4. What 2 rights did the Egyptian slaves have?
5. In what year did the Egyptian Empire fall?
6. Know the Social Pyramid chart and be able to answer questions regarding what is higher and lower.


ANSWERS:
1. Job
2. Social Pyramid
3. Slaves
4. Treated fairly and own property
5. 1100 B.C.
6.  

 

EGYPT LESSON 5 REVIEW (9/2)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM

1. What group of people came in to Egypt and took over around 1650 BC?
2. How were they able to defeat the Egyptians?
3. What happened after 100 years or so?
4. What is special about the Pharaoh Hatshepsut?
5. What did she focus on during her rule?
6. Who found King Tut's tomb?
7. What ages was King Tut when he ruled Egypt?
8. Where was his tomb found?
9. Why was the finding of his tomb so special?
10. In what 3 areas did Egyptians learn from the cultures they conquered?


ANSWERS:
1. Hyksos
2. Advanced weapons, chariots, and horses
3. Egypt learned from them and retook Egypt
4. First female ruler known in history
5. Trade
6. Howard Carter
7. 9-19
8. Valley of the Kings
9. It was untouched
10. Math, Medicine, and Science