<p> MESOPOTAMIA UNIT TEST STUDY GUIDE</p><p>(USE THIS AS A SUGGESTED TOOL)</p><p>TUESDAY </p><p> Reread textbook pages 148 – 161</p><p> Study skeletal notes - Mesopotamia</p><p> Continue working on Essay</p><p>WEDNESDAY</p><p> Reread textbook pages 162 – 174</p><p> Study skeletal notes – Mesopotamian Religion and Writing</p><p> Continue working on Essay</p><p>THURSDAY</p><p> Reread textbook pages 175 – 180</p><p> Study skeletal notes – Later Mesopotamia</p><p> Finalize and print out Essay AND BRING WITH YOU TO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY</p><p>MESOPOTAMIA</p><p>I. The Land Between Two Rivers</p><p>A. Region known as “The Fertile Crescent”</p><p>B. Located between Tigris and Euphrates rivers</p><p>C. Rich soil </p><p>D. Area would flood easily</p><p>II. Sumerians</p><p>A. Created written symbols to meet needs of tracking goods they traded</p><p>1) Over time it developed into Cuneiform</p><p>B. Worshipped 4 main gods - Polytheism</p><p>1) About 3,000 lesser gods also reigned in Sumer</p><p>C. Gilgamesh</p><p>1) Probably the world’s first epic 2) First written down approximately in 2,000 BC</p><p>3) King of Uruk</p><p>III. The First Empires</p><p>A. Akkad</p><p>1) Sargon</p><p> a) He created the world’s first empire</p><p> b) Conquered Northern Mesopotamia and far east lands – His kingdom may have </p><p> reached present-day Egypt.</p><p>B. Assyria</p><p>1) Shamshi-Adad</p><p> a) Ruled from about 1813 – 1781 BC</p><p> b) Traded goods within Mesopotamia such as cloth for tin, copper, and silver</p><p>C. Babylonia</p><p>1) Hammurabi</p><p> a) Rose to power in about 1792 BC</p><p> b) Conquered and united 24 city-states within Mesopotamia</p><p> c) Capable ruler and created The Code of Hammurab – set of 282 laws</p><p>2) Ziggurat</p><p> a) The wealthier you were, the closer you lived to the Ziggurat</p><p> b) Majestic structure within the City-State</p><p>D. Rise and Fall of Assyria and Bablonia</p><p>1) Both groups of people did not treat the people they conquered well</p><p>2) People were exiled</p><p>3) The Conquered people began to set up rebellions to overthrow the Assyrians </p><p> and Babylonians.</p>