STUDENT WORK

FOR CHAPTER 2
MESOPOTAMIA, THE CRADLE OF
HISTORY

Judy Ann T. Aguinaldo

BEEd IV

Date
September 26, 2020

Course Title
Soc. Sci 5/World History

Instructress
Marry Ann Salting MA. Ed
A.

1. The region is considered as the site of the garden of Eden, where famous rivers met, and
according to the bible, this is where the God created the first man and woman.

2.
Sumer - Sumer prospered and became the world's first civilization, earlier than Egypt did.
Akkad- Akkad became the world's first empire.
Assyrian- They are the largest empire. They were the most feared and cruel empire in the region.
Babylon- is the most creative civilization. They are outsiders who were originally Amorites.

3. In my imagination, If I'm the king of my society, I will give the same privilege that men has to
women. The slaves will be treated much better and selling girls in the market would be
punishable and prohibited. Violence against each other wont be allowed. I think, the problem I
will have is that I'm too soft hearted to be a king.

4. In the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia the first human settlements advanced into civilizations
with highly developed resources in religion, culture, government, law, economy, military, arts
and sciences.

5. If you say that the hand writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a
situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant.

6. Mesopotamia was conquered by other empires surrendered to the Persian Empire in 539 BC.
Then The Persians fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and to the Greek Seleucid Empire.
Parts of Mesopotamia later fell to Roman control. In 226 AD, Mesopotamia was completely
absorbed into the Persian Sassanid Empire, and later into the Muslim Caliphate system.

7. Nebuchadnezzar II

8. The two native nations are Sumer and Akkad. The outsiders are Babylonians, Assyria, and
Chaldea.

9. With the plow, they made more farms, with the wheel, they made wagons, waterwheels, and
mills.
10. Because of the superstition that the earth was a flat disc. Arabian sailors used their sailboats
and other navigation aids to sail in far away seas. These "Arab" maritime skills expanded
knowledge of the world.

B.

1. Mesopotamia- considered by scholars as "the cradle of history."

2. Fertile Crescent - It sustained the world's first farms and cities.
3. Sumeria- The first civilization.
4. Cuneiform- this is what sumerian writing was called.
5. Code of Ur- Nammu- The world's first written Law
6. Assyria- It was the empire that controlled the Mesopotamia in Iron Age.
7. Akkad- is the world's first empire.
8. Sargon I- He absorbed Sumer into Akkadia
9. Babylon- The creative empire.
10. Hammurabi - a warrior and the greatest priest- king of Babylon.
11. Tiglath- Pileser III - the greatest Assyrian emperor.
12. Henry Rawlinson- a british scholar who deciphered the most ancient of all
languages.
13. Ziggurat- A pyramid temple of several stories o a large flatform, each story
smaller than the one below it.
14. Ur- One of the cities of Sumerian.
15. Epic of Gilgamesh- It is a sumerian epic, written on 12 clay tablets, recounts
the adventures of King Gilgamesh.
16. Tower of Babel- In the old testament, it describes their first unsuccessful
attempt at unity in building the tallest ziggurat.
17. Behistun Rock - was the key to deciphering the meaning of cuneiform.
18. Map of Nippur- the oldest city map in the world.
19. Empire- is greater than a kingdom or a group of independent states because it is
more powerful, larger in area and has a bigger population of subjects.
20. Bonus

C.
1. Iran
2. Sumer
3. Akkad
4. Chaldea
5. Babylonia
6. Babylon
7. Behistun
8. Gilgamesh
9. Hittites
10. Assyria
11. Man
12. Ur
13. Persia
14. Tigris
15. Euphrates
16. Stylus
17. Girl
18. Event
19. Tigris

D.

1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True
11. False
12. True
13. True
14. True
15. False
16. True
17. True
18.True
19. False
20. True