hamurrabi.gif (22498 bytes)Mesopotamia By the Numbers      Name ________________ Period _____
               Mr and Mrs Smith's World History                Updated      9/26/2005     9/27/2005

250 12 3000 B.C. 50 2300 B.C. 3500 B.C. 1000 1600
1,000,000 360 18 2400 B.C. 2300 B.C. 1800 B.C. 40 1
3000 3500 B.C. 3500-3400 B.C. 60 60 60 4000 B.C. 1800 B.C.
1700 B.C. 2 3          


__________ 1.  Power of Sumer starts to fade.

__________ 2.  People settled in southern Mesopotamia.

__________ 3.  Number of years Hammurabi ruled the Babylonian Empire.

__________ 4.  Number of people who can read cuneiform.

__________ 5.  Sumeria established.

__________ 6.  Military leaders took the place of priests as permanent kings

__________ 7.  Sargon I creates the world's first empire.

__________ 8.  Amorites enter Tigris-Euphrates valley and build cities of their own.

__________ 9.  Number of months in a Mesopotamian calendar.

__________ 10. Number of volumes in the Sumerian dictionary.

__________ 11. Hammurabi conquers Akkad and Sumer.

__________ 12. The Mesopotamian number system was based on this number.

__________ 13. Twin rivers flow more than ______ miles to the Persian Gulf.

__________ 14. The number of minutes in a Mesopotamian hour.

__________ 15. Oldest known Sumerian story, Tales of Gilgamesh, witten.

__________ 16. Number of degrees in a Mesopotamian circle.

__________ 17. Groups of people begin migrating into Mesopotamia.

__________ 18. Twin rivers flow more than _____ kilometers to the Persian Gulf.

__________ 19. Number of seconds in a Mesopotamian minute.

__________ 20. Number of years Sargon I ruled his empire.

__________ 21. Number of signs that make up Sumerian language.

__________ 22. Sargon I moved his armies south an began to conquer the city-states of Sumer.

__________ 23. Mesopotamian officials started using cylinder seals to mark goods.

__________ 24. We are studying Chapter ____ Mesopotamia.

__________ 25. Number of Sumerian gods.

__________ 26. Number of stories in an upper class Sumerian house.

__________ 27. Number of stories in a middle class Sumerian house.