Social Studies

How did Sumerian civilization affect other empires that developed Mesopotamia?

What does Mesopotamia mean?

A self-governing city and the land and villages surrounding it

The system of writing invented in Sumer

Belief in the existence of many gods and goddesses

A Sumerian king who briefly unted the city-states of Sumer

A great hero popular in a long story of ancient Sumer

A large building where Sumerians went to worship their gods and goddesses

Why do historians study cause-effect connections?

What was the effect of constant warfare amoung the city-states of Sumer?

Why did nomadic warriors want to conquer the city-states of Sumer?

What was the final cause of the fall of the Sumerian empire?

What is the name of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

Around 1800 a great Bablonian kind named_________ dammed parts of the Euphrates River and attacked the Sumerians.  In time, he conquered them

Hammurabi created a great empired called?

One of the world's oldest sets of law is the ___________

Describe Babylon

Jewish people consider Abraham's agreement with God to be

During a time of crop failure, the Israelites went to the land of _________ to fet food.  There they eventually were forced into slavery

Who was the great Hebrew leader who les the Israelites out of slavery and back to the land of Canaan?

Belief in the existence of only one God is called