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1. Using this internet site name the two major rivers and five cities. (Ancient Cities) 2. What is the present day country where Mesopotamia was located and then name the present day countries that surround this country? (Modern Political) 3. Name the empires during the following dates: 3000-2300B.C., 1750 B.C., 1200 B.C. name all three empires, 650 B.C., 550 B.C., 500 B.C. (Civilizations over time) 4. What are the four natural resources present in Mesopotamia during the ancient times? What did Mesopotamia import from: the Caucasus Mountains, Iran, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt? (Natural Resources)

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1. Who were Gilgamesh and Enkidu? 2. What was it Gilgamesh and Enkidu were going to bring back from their adventure? 3. What was this product used for that they were going to bring back? 4. What was the demon’s name that guarded the cedar forest? 5. To which god did Gilgamesh and Enkidu make an offering and what was he the god of? 6. What did Gilgamesh and Enkidu use to defeat the demon and how did they kill him? 7. How did they get the wood back to Uruk?

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1. Did Mesopotamia have one god or many gods? 2. Who created the demons? 3. Demons and Monsters were made-up of what kinds of creatures?

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4. What did scribes do with regards to their gods? 5. Describe who the following gods or goddesses were and what were they responsible for: Abzu, Anu, Ashur, Ishtar, Marduk, and Shamash. Story: Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters

1. In Mesopotamian mythology why were humans created and who created them? 2. What did the humans have to provide the gods and goddesses?

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1. How long ago did civilizations develop in Mesopotamia? 2. Name three things that these first cities established? 3. What is a tell and what does it mean to excavate?

Story: Time

1. What are three stories from the Bible that took place in Mesopotamia? 2. Who wrote ‘The History’? 3. What did Claudius James Rich do while he lived in Baghdad, Iraq? 4. What was it that Henry Rawlinson did that made him famous? 5. What does chronology mean?

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1. How many years ago was writing invented in Mesopotamia and on what did they base this writing? What is a pictogram? 2. There are seven objects that a scribe used to record information. Name these seven items or tools and how they were used.

Story: Writing

1. In what year, did people begin to record amounts of crops? What was one of their most important crops? 3. Out of what material were the tool for drawing and the tablet made? 4. When a wedged shaped tool was used what did the name of this kind of writing become? 5. What does cuneiform mean? 6. Besides a pictogram what did the symbol barley come to represent? 7. What are the six ways that information can be recorded using cuneiform writing? 8. What are the five different languages that used the cuneiform type of writing? 9. In what year, was one of the last barley signs recorded in cuneiform? 10. Date and draw the four barley signs on the chart.