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1 SY 2017/ nd Final Term Revision Student s Name: Grade: 5 A Subject: Social Studies Teacher Signature

2 Name: Grade: 5A/B Subject: Social Studies Date: Revision Worksheets I. Identify and study the following. 1. Bartering people used to exchange their crops with each other to meet the needs of their families. 2. Trade is the buying and selling of goods 3. Export selling what one country does not need or its surplus goods to other countries. 4. Import refers to buying goods that one country does not produce. 5. Taxes on imported goods or put restrictions on the member of items of a particular good that can be imported. 6. WTO World Trade Organization was established in 1995, it consists of 149 countries and is located in Switzerland. 7. Tourism is the business of providing and arranging vacations and services for people who are visiting a place away from home. 8. Dead Sea in Jordan, is an attractive winter site for tourism since it offers a warm climate. 9. UNWTO The World Tourism Organization, is a specialized agency of the United Nation, it is headquarters in Madrid, Spain, consists of 145 countries Ps Place, Product, Promotion, Price 11. Place which means the country and the sited located there. 12. Product which comprises hotels, highways, transportation, services and tourist guides 13. Promotion which means TV advertisement, brochures and leaflets about the country 14. Price which means the cost of tourism, 15. Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means the land between the rivers 16. Fertile Crescent which is a geographical region that runs across the northern part 17. Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia around 3500BC 18. Gilgamesh the first King of Uruk 19. Uruk the first large cities on the Eupharates River in South Mesopotamia.

3 20. Epic is a long poem describing brave deeds and adventures of great men and women or about a nation s past history. 21. Ziggurat the tallest building in the city was the temple. 22. Cuneiform the first written language in the world - is a pictographic language, which means that pictures represent words. 23. Pictograms resembled the objects they presented and were drawn by using sharpened reeds characters used in the Cuneiform writing system. 25. Scribes trained people, record keepers knew how to write 26. Akkad was a city located north of Sumeria 27. Akkadians rose to power as the Sumerians began to weaken 28. Sargon the Great was a King who ruled Akkad from 2334 BC to 2279BC 29. Sumer Akkad establishing a united country, he was also able to bring all the area of the Fertile Crescent. 30. Akkadian King Ur Namma who conquered Southern Mesopotamia 31. Babylon a small village on the Eupharates River 32. Babylonians people in Babylon 33. Hammurabi Greatest Amorite Leader, who ruled from 1792 BC to 1750 BC 34. Babylon were divided into three classes: nobles, free commoners and slaves 35. Nobles were the highest and the most powerful class 36. slaves who were owned by other people 37. Free Commoners were the largest class consisting artisans, priests and traders 38. The Code of Hammurabi is considered to be one of the first written set of laws 39. Assyria the Assyrian Empire derives its name from a city 40. Nineveh- the capital city, contained luxurious temples and palaces 41. Aqueducts which are stone channels or pipes that carried water from distant places. 42. Commerce is the buying, selling, exchanging and transporting of goods.

4 II. Answer the following questions. 1. What is the WTO? 2. Why was the WTO established? 3. The Fertile Crescent was given its name. 4. Define the cuneiform writing system. 5. How did the Sumerians write cuneiform? 6. What was the benefit of Hammurabi s Code on his kingdom? 7. Hammurabi was the greatest Amorite leader.

5 8. What are some of the characteristics of Assyrian cities? 9. What are the classes of people in Babylon? 10. Define the cuneiform writing system.

Study Guide Chapter 4 Mesopotamia

Study Guide Chapter 4 Mesopotamia 1) silt: fine particles of fertile soil 2) irrigation: a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams Key Vocabulary Terms: 11) tribute: