Mesopotamia
Friday, November 13, 2009
Study Guide
Chapter 6
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
administrator artisan city-state
code
cuneiform empire epic
irrigation
nomad pictograph plain
plateau
polytheism scribe stylus
ziggurat
Key Concepts
• Know the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
• Understand the climate problems that the Sumerians faced.
• Explain how irrigation helped give rise to the Sumerian civilization.
• Describe the religion of Sumerians and be able to explain polytheism.
• Know the three classes of society in Mesopotamia.
• Describe the important advances that the Sumerians made in technology.
• Describe the conditions and events that led to the rise of kingship
in Mesopotamia.
• Define empire, referring to Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia.
• Describe the contributions and advances made by Sargon, Shamshi-Adad,
and Hammurabi.
