World History Study Guide for Ch. 2
1.
Where was Mesopotamia located?
2.
What did the land have so it could sustain an early civilization?
3.
What did Mesopotamia farmers rely on?
4.
What were city-states?
5.
What was the most famous building in Mesopotamia?
6.
What is a theocracy?
7.
What was the economy of Sumerian based on? Hint 3 things
8.
What were the three major Sumerian social groups?
9.
What is an empire?
10. What was the Code of Hammurabi?
11. What was the largest focus of the Hammurabi Code?
12. What does polytheistic mean?
13. What does monotheistic mean?
14. What was cuneiform?
15. What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
16. How long is the Nile?
17. What was the miracle that happened every year to the Egyptians?
18. What were the two groups of gods that the Egyptians believed in?
19. What are the three parts of history in Egypt?
20. What are the periods between stability called?
21. What king united the Upper and Lower parts of Egypt into a single kingdom?
22. What is a dynasty?
23. What is a pharaoh?
24. What is a bureaucracy?
25. Who was the first woman pharaoh?
26. How was the society in ancient Egypt organized? From top to bottom
27. What were hieroglyphics?
28. Who were pastoral nomads?
29. Who were the first to use iron for stronger and cheaper weapons?
30. What was the basis of the Phoenicians prosperity?
31. What was the Israelites religion?
32. Why did the Israelites move out of Egypt?
33. Who ruled over the Israelites?
34. Where did the prophets write down God’s word?
35. Who were the Assyrians?
36. How did the Assyrian Empire work?
37. Why did the Assyrians use terror?
38. Who was Cyrus?
39. What were Darius’ 20 provinces called?
40. What was the name of the governor over the satrapies?
41. Who were the Immortals?
42. Why did the Persian Empire collapse?
43. Who was the god and the evil spirit in the Zoroastrianism religion?