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Social Studies
This worksheet contains questions and activities about the lessons we have done so far: geography, maps, link between geography and history, prehistory, Paleolithic and Neolithic, first civilizations, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria. You may use your journal and History of Our World book as a reference, but do not copy the information literally.
If you want to improve the grade you got in your first test, show me that you understand questions 1-5 and I will update your test grade according to your new result. If you do not need to improve your grade, just start working from question 6.
LESSON 1. LINK BETWEEN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
1. What is geography?
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2. What is history?
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3. Why do historians need to know about geography?
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4. Explain to me what latitude and longitude lines are and what they are used for.
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5. What type of information can you see in a physical map? And in a political map?
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2. LESSON 2. FROM STONE AGE TO CIVILIZATION.
6. What was life like during the Stone Age? (During both Paleolithic and Neolithic).
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7. What important skills did people of the Old Stone Age or Paleolithic use to find food?
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8. What marked the start of the New Stone Age or Neolithic?
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9. What skills did people develop during the New Stone Age or Neolithic?
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10. What are the advantages of a settled life in comparison with nomadic (migratory) life?
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11. What effect did food surpluses have on people living in towns?
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12. Why did cities often grow up along rivers?
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13. What happened as societies grew into civilizations?
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LESSON 3. MESOPOTAMIA
14. What is Mesopotamia?
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15. How was life in Sumerian cities? Describe what you know about these cities.
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16. What were the religious beliefs of Summerians?
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17. What was a ziggurat?
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LESSON 4. BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA
18. Why did many rulers wish to conquer Mesopotamia?
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19. Who was Hammurabi and what did he accomplish?
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20. What was characteristic of the Assyrian civilization?
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21. Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
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LESSON 5. THE LEGACY OF MESOPOTAMIA
22. What was the legacy of Mesopotamian civilizations?
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23. What was the most interesting fact about Mesopotamia for you?
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24. What would you like to know more about?
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