GEOGRAPHY

VOCABULARY

ACHIEVEMENTS WOMAN HOTS

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Question 1 - 10

• NAME THE 2 RIVERS THAT NOURISHED ANCIENT MESOPOTOMIAN CIVILIZATION.

WHAT ARE THE TWO RIVERS THAT NOURISHED ANCIENT

MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION

• TIGRIS AND THE EUPHRATES.

WHAT MODERN COUNTRY IS IN THE SAME AREA AS ANCIENT

MESOPOTAMIA

Answer 1 – 20 WHAT MODERN COUNTRY IS IN THE SAME AREA AS

ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

IRAQ

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

WHAT IS THE MESOPOTAMIAN NICKNAME WHICH REFERS TO THE GOOD FARM LAND NEAR THE RIVERS AND THE SHAPE OF

THIS AREA?

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

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.

A PROFESSIONSAL WRITER FOR THE GOVERNMENTS, TEMPLES

AND BUSINESS

Answer 2 – 10A PROFESSIONAL WRITER FOR GOVERNMENT, THE

TEMPLES AND BUSINESS.

SCRIBE

A POLITICAL UNIT CONSISTING OF A CITY AND THE SURROUNDING

COUNTRYSIDE

Answer 2 – 20 A POLTICAL UNIT CONSISTING OF A CITY AND

SURROUNDING COUNTRY SIDE

CITY-STATE

WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF A SUMERIAN CITY-STATE

WHAT WAS THE CENTER OF A SUMERIAN CITY-STATE?

• ZIGGURAT

GIFTS AND MONEY DEMANDED FROM A RULER

• TRIBUTE

GIFTS AND MONEY DEMANDED FROM A RULER

A SOCIETY WHICH HAS A SOPHISTICATED GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE AND A KNOWLEDGE OF

MATHMATICS, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.

A SOCIETY THAT HAS A SOPHISTICATED GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE AND A KNOWLEDGE OF

SCIENCE, MATHMATICS AND THE ARTS.

• CIVILIZATION

THIS SUMERIAN ACHEIVEMENT CAUSES US TO CLASSIFY IT AS PART

OF HISTORY, NOT PREHISTORY

THIS SUMERIAN ACHEIVEMENT CAUSES US TO CLASSIFY IT AS PART

OF HISTORY, NOT PREHISTORY

• WRITING, CUNEIFORM

NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT GOVERNMENT

NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO GOVERNMENT

• THE CODE OF HAMMURABI

NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

NAME AN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

• WHEEL, SAIL, CHARIOT

NAME A SUMERIAN ACHEIVMENT RELATED TO IRRIGATION

NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO IRRIGATION

• BASIN, LEVEE, CANALS

NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO MEDICINE

NAME A SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENT RELATED TO MEDICINE

BRAIN SURGERY

EXPLAIN ONE WAY IN WHICH THE CODE OF HAMMURABI PROTECTED WOMEN

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.

PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE IN WHICH WOMAN HAD ECONOMIC POWER

PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE IN WHICH SUMERIAN WOMAN HAD

ECONOMIC POWERSOME WOMAN OWNED AND

CONTROLLED BUSINESSES LIKE THE ASSYRIAN WOMAN IN THE

READING.

WHAT WERE 2 POWERFUL AND INFLLUENTIAL JOBS THAT SOME MESOPOTAMIAN WOMEN HAD?

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

QUEEN AND PRIESTESS

HOW WERE SLAVE WOMEN TREATED?

• FEMALE SLAVES OF THE QUEEN WERE KILLED AND BURIED WITH HER TO SERVE IN THE NEXT LIFE

HOW WERE SUMERIAN SLAVE WOMEN TREATED?

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

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.

EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF 3 SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS OUR

CIVILIZATON

EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF 3 SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS ON CIVILIZATION

ARCH, WRITING,MATH SYSTEM BASED ON 60

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.

EXPLAIN 2 WAYS IN WHICH SUMERIAN GEOGRAPHY

INFLUENCED THEIR OUTLOOK ON LIFE.

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

WHAT VALUES WERE IMPORTANT TO THE MESOPOTAMIANS AND WERE EXEMPLIFIED BY GILGAMESH, ENKIDU AND HARIM?

PRIVATE PROPERTYBRAVERYLOYALTYCOMPASSIONCOURAGECULTUREDIPLOMACYWISDOM

EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE SUMERIAN

TABLET SCHOOLS

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.

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.

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

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 AND BY ONE JUSDED

• JUDGE WAS COMMON IN MESOPORAMINA