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Mr. Deutsch's Virtual Textbook
Mesopotamia
Information Scavenger Hunt
Go to the address at: http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/foodquiz.html
1. What did hunter gatherers eat? _____________
. Would you survive as a hunter gatherer? Take a quick quiz and
find out.
Go to the address at: http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/HCS210/HortOrigins/NEOrigins.html
2. What does "domestication" mean? __________________________
3. What environmental conditions were necessary to domesticate plants?
______________________________
4. What were 3 plants that the Mesopotamians domesticated? ___________
___________ ___________
Go to the first address at http://www.hoocher.com/mr.j'spage/theancientmiddleeast.htm
- Look at the pictures of the Fertile Crescent today, then answer the
questions using the reading.
5. How many miles long is the Tigris River and the
Euphrates River?
TIGRIS RIVER ____________
EUPHRATES RIVER ____________
Go to the address at Mesopotamia
Map and look at the map of Mesopotamia.
6. Why did the Mesopotamians settle near water? ______________________________________
7. Why not ocean water? ______________________________________
8. Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent are
surrounded by two plateaus and one Peninsula. Name them.
Go to the address at http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/Meso/cody.html
-Read the section on Mesopotamia's Social pyramid and answer the following
questions.
9. What LEVELS, or social classes, existed
in Mesopotamia? _____________________________________
10. List the types of people found at each level? _________________________________________________
11. Approximately how tall were the ZIGGURATS, or pyramids,
of Mesopotamia? __________________
Go to the address at http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/Meso/emily.html
12. Why did the Mesopotamians need to invent writing?
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13. How did they write? ___________________________________________________________________
Go to the address at: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/CUNEI.HTM
14. The first kind of writen language was ____________
15. What does the word Latin word "CUNEIFORM"
mean in English? ______________________________
16. What are IDEOGRAMS? ________________________________________________________
Go
to the address at: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/MEDU.HTM
17. How is cuneiform similar to Egypt's system
of hieroglyphics? __________________________________
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Let's look at the role of women in Mesopotamia.
Go to the address: http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html
18. Name at least THREE (3) rights
women had in ancient Mesopotamia
__________________________,
__________________________,
and __________________________
Go to the address at http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/gardens.html
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World.
19. Why did the king create the Hanging Gardens
of Babylon? __________________________________
20. Why can't scientists trust eyewitness accounts of what the gardens
looked like? _________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
21. If we wanted to travel to the original site of the gardens, where
would we have to go? ________________
Go to the address at: http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/Meso/gallery.html
22. What is a "code"? __________________________________
23. Choose one of the two laws given. How would the law read if we had
this law today? ________________
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Finally, go to the address at http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
- Read through some of the original text of the first known recorded law
code.
- Scroll around to answer the following questions.
24. How many total laws are there in Hammurabi's Law code? ___________________________
25. What is the last law in the code? _________________________________________________________
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