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Chapter 4 – “Early Empires” - Study Guide and Review Packet
Lessons 1, 2, 3 - (p. 108 – 137)
Testdate
Study Guide Reminders:
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Text – pages 108-137 (Review pages 136-137 are great!)
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Learning Targets sheet for Chapter 4.
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Master the vocabulary from all three lessons.
4.
Read over any notes you took in class or are using from Classzone.com.
5.
Look over the various worksheets / packets / notes for this chapter.
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Look over quizzes for this chapter.
7.
Use activities on Classzone.com
Test Outline:
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Multiple choice and matching questions based on content and vocabulary.
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Multiple choice questions based on a map.
3.
Multiple choice questions based on a chart.
4.
Know the leaders of each empire and what were KEY / important things each leader
did during the time they led / ruled the early empires.
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Learning Targets for Chapter 4
LT #1. Students will be able to interpret maps, charts and graphs.
LT #2. Students will understand why some Early Empires succeeded and
Early Empires failed.
LT #3. Students will understand how Early Empires changed over time.
LT #4. Students will understand how inventions affected the Early Empires.
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Chapter 4 Review & Study Guide - “Early Empires”
A. Vocabulary: Master all of the vocabulary words from this chapter, how the words are used to
help explain concepts and key ideas in this chapter.
Lesson 1
empire
emperor
Fertile Crescent
Hammurabi
code of law
justice
Lesson 2
exile
tribute
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
revolt
Chaldeans
Medes
Lesson 3
Anatolia
toleration
satrap
Royal Road
Darius
Cyrus
B. Know key people / groups of people from each lesson – who were they and what were they
famous for in this chapter?
Lesson 1
Sargon
Hammurabi
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Chaldeans
Darius
Medes
Cyrus
Ashurbanipal
Nebuchadnezzar II
C. Linking terms: Explain why the words in each pair below are connected with each other.
1. empire, Fertile Crescent and Anatolia
2. Hammurabi, code of law, and justice
3. province, satrap and Royal Road
D. Use the Chapter 4 Learning Target sheet and the chapter lessons to help you answer the questions.
Mesopotamian Empires (Pages 112-117)
4. Which ancient lands are a part of the region known as the Fertile Crescent?
5. How do empires change the lives of the people who live in them?
6. Why was Hammurabi’s Code a step toward a better government?
7. What was special about Sargon’s Akkadian Empire?
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Assyria Rules the Fertile Crescent (Pages 118 - 127)
8. Why were the Assyrians able to build such a large empire? How were they able to control it?
9. How did Assyrians treat people who had different religious beliefs and ways of life?
10. Why did conquered people have to pay tribute?
Persia Controls Southwest Asia (Pages 128-135)
11. What policies did Cyrus use to keep his empire under control?
12. Why did Darius expand his government?
13. Why was the Persian’s Royal Road so important?
BIG ideas --- taken from the learning targets for this chapter, review packets and notes, and use the
textbook, page 136.
14. How does a uniform code of law improve a leader’s ability to rule effectively?
15. What pattern of governmental leadership can be seen in the reigns of Hammurabi, Cyrus, and
Darius?
16. How successful were the policies of Assyria compared with those of Persia?
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