Mesopotamia Review

Mesopotamia Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe Geography of Mesopotamia: Area became known as Fertile Crescent with land in between forming first civilization.

Describe why people came to region and what they did?
People began to settle and farm land before 4500 BC, Samarians arrived in 3300 BC.

Describe how city-states were organized and who were their leaders: Each city was organized by being similar in culture but having its on gov.

Describe the religion of Mesopotamia: Polytheistic or believed in many gods who control nature. Also Gods descried as human things like falling in love and having kids.

Describe Hammurabi’s Code: The code had 282 laws dealing with everything in community such as family relations, business conduct, and crime and property issues.

Code applied to everyone but established different punishments for rich and poor and men and women.