{"id":440,"date":"2019-11-08T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/?p=440"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:05:39","slug":"next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/2019\/11\/08\/next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Week!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students will be assessed on the material for Chapters 4 and 5 this up coming Wednesday, November 13th. The study guides are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 4 Assessment: Study Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Directions:<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp; This is your study guide.&nbsp; You do NOT need to turn this in!&nbsp; However, you may NOT use this on the assessment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why were Sumerian communities called city-states? (sec 1, 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What does the name Mesopotamia mean?&nbsp;<\/li><li>What allowed Neolithic people to farm in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains? (sec 3)<\/li><li>What caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Why did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flood in the spring?&nbsp; (sec 4)<\/li><li>What were some factors that made farming difficult in Sumer?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Describe the environment of Sumer (sec 2, 4)<\/li><li>What was the solution to the food shortage for the people in the Zagros foothills?<\/li><li>Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?&nbsp; (sec 5)<\/li><li>What were the purposes of levees?&nbsp;<\/li><li>What were the purposes of dams and reservoirs?&nbsp; (sec 4)<\/li><li>Why did the people of Sumer construct moats?&nbsp; (sec 6)<\/li><li>What were the walls surrounding the cities made out of?&nbsp;(sec 6)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ALSO:&nbsp; Be familiar with the map on page 34, all the physical features and names<\/li><li>ALSO:&nbsp; Know all of the BLUE vocab from chapter 4 (fill in the blank, no word bank)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chapter 5 Assessment: Study Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Directions:<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp; This is your study guide.&nbsp; You do NOT need to turn this in!&nbsp; However, you may NOT use this on the assessment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which people would have most likely lived in a two-story house near the center of the city?&nbsp; (Sec 4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A society has a stable food supply if it has enough food for who?&nbsp; (sec 3)<\/li><li>What responsibilities did the Kings have in Sumer?&nbsp; (sec 5)<\/li><li>What was the Sumerian belief that helped make Kings powerful and restore social order?&nbsp; (sec 5)<\/li><li>What were the two inventions that dealt with food supply?&nbsp; (sec 3)<\/li><li>Who lived in mud-brick houses at the edge of the cities?&nbsp; (sec 4)<\/li><li>What was the purpose of the ziggurat (sec 6)<\/li><li>Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?&nbsp; (sec 5)<\/li><li>What kinds of things did the Sumerians have for entertainment?&nbsp; (sec 7)<\/li><li>Which invention made it possible for Sumerians to use chariots?&nbsp; (sec 8)<\/li><li>What did Sumerians use to write cuneiform?&nbsp; (sec 9)<\/li><li>What evidence found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not <em>prehistoric<\/em> (remember definition)?&nbsp; (sec 9)<\/li><li>Records of the goods people exchanged were made on what?&nbsp; (sec 9)<\/li><li>Which invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings?&nbsp; (sec 8)<ul><li>ALSO:&nbsp; <strong>Know all<\/strong> the BLUE words from <strong>chapter 5 and 4<\/strong><\/li><li>ALSO:&nbsp; Know the 7 <em>characteristics of a civilization<\/em> and their meaning<\/li><li>ALSO:&nbsp; Know map from chapter 4 on Mesopotamia\/Sumer- p. 34<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will be assessed on the material for Chapters 4 and 5 this up coming Wednesday, November 13th. 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