Students will be assessed on the material for Chapters 4 and 5 this up coming Wednesday, November 13th. The study guides are below:
Chapter 4 Assessment: Study Guide
Directions: This is your study guide. You do NOT need to turn this in! However, you may NOT use this on the assessment.
Why were Sumerian communities called city-states? (sec 1, 6)
- What does the name Mesopotamia mean?
- What allowed Neolithic people to farm in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains? (sec 3)
- What caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?
- Why did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flood in the spring? (sec 4)
- What were some factors that made farming difficult in Sumer?
- Describe the environment of Sumer (sec 2, 4)
- What was the solution to the food shortage for the people in the Zagros foothills?
- Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?
- Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other? (sec 5)
- What were the purposes of levees?
- What were the purposes of dams and reservoirs? (sec 4)
- Why did the people of Sumer construct moats? (sec 6)
- What were the walls surrounding the cities made out of? (sec 6)
- ALSO: Be familiar with the map on page 34, all the physical features and names
- ALSO: Know all of the BLUE vocab from chapter 4 (fill in the blank, no word bank)
Chapter 5 Assessment: Study Guide
Directions: This is your study guide. You do NOT need to turn this in! However, you may NOT use this on the assessment.
Which people would have most likely lived in a two-story house near the center of the city? (Sec 4)
- A society has a stable food supply if it has enough food for who? (sec 3)
- What responsibilities did the Kings have in Sumer? (sec 5)
- What was the Sumerian belief that helped make Kings powerful and restore social order? (sec 5)
- What were the two inventions that dealt with food supply? (sec 3)
- Who lived in mud-brick houses at the edge of the cities? (sec 4)
- What was the purpose of the ziggurat (sec 6)
- Why were scribes important in Sumerian government? (sec 5)
- What kinds of things did the Sumerians have for entertainment? (sec 7)
- Which invention made it possible for Sumerians to use chariots? (sec 8)
- What did Sumerians use to write cuneiform? (sec 9)
- What evidence found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not prehistoric (remember definition)? (sec 9)
- Records of the goods people exchanged were made on what? (sec 9)
- Which invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings? (sec 8)
- ALSO: Know all the BLUE words from chapter 5 and 4
- ALSO: Know the 7 characteristics of a civilization and their meaning
- ALSO: Know map from chapter 4 on Mesopotamia/Sumer- p. 34