Ms. Brashears' Chapter 2 SS Test
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- Identify the characteristics of a civilization
- A centralized society, developes forms of religion, ways of governing, and learning.
- Mesopotamia
- A country in early Southwest Asia
- What is the order the four empires held power?
- Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian
- What were some of the problems experienced by Mesopotamians?
- Flooding, wars to protect farmland, and they lost a lot of land
- Phoenicans
- Citizens of Phoenicia
- cultural diffusion
- The spread of new ideas from one place to another
- Euphrates
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- Why was Hammurabi important to Mesopotamia?
- Because he compiled a set of laws called the Code of Hammurabi and he conquered and most of Mesopotamia
- Why was the alphabet and coined money used by other people in other countries? (Why did these spread to other cultures?)
- Answer:
- ziggurat
- A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians
- scribe
- A person who writes
- monarchy
- The system of government in which a king or queen rules
- Moses
- Prophet and lawgiver who, according to the bible, led the Israelites out of Eqyptian captivity
- Tigris
- A river in Southwestern Asia
- What were the effects of a food surplus?
- Food surplus made the Mesopotamians food supply more stable.
- labor
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- dikes
- Answer:
- surplus
- An extra supply of food
- What were the differences in religious beliefes between Abraham and the rest of Mesopotamia?
- Abraham only worshipped one Goid, while the rest of the Mesopotamians worshipped sheveral Gods
- Sargon
- Warrior who founded the Akkadian empire
- What effects did coined money have on the civilization?
- Coining money made an easier way of trade and they were used for it, but they were too heavy to carry around.
- Be able to identify a major accomplishment of the four empires
- Akkadian: Assyrian: Gained control of religion Babylonian:
- irrigation
- The use of connected ditches, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas
- agriculture
- The domestication of plants and animals
- city-states
- A city and its own surrounding farmlands
- cuneiform
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