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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following locations was most favorable for growing crops and raising livestock?
A desert
A peninsula
A river valley
An archipelago
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was a positive effect of the flooding of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The rivers provided a natural protection from invaders
Improvement of fishing techniques
Mud build-up trapping animals near the villages
Deposits of silt creating fertile soil
- 3. Multiple Choice
Where is the Fertile Crescent, a large arc of farmland in Mesopotamia, located?
Middle East
North America
South America
Asia
- 4. Multiple Choice
What was the writing system of Mesopotamia called?
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Sanskrit
Calligraphy
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes Mesopotamian religious beliefs?
Polytheistic
Neothistic
Monotheistic
Idealistic
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following are examples of Mesopotamian inventions and achievements?
cave drawings, wheels, the calculator
gunpowder, the plow
the plow, cuneiform, and zigguarats
public baths, schools
- 7. Multiple Choice
What made Gilgamesh an important figure in Mesopotamia?
King of Ur and Literary Genius (Poet)
A King of Mesopotamia and expert blacksmith
Inventing Pictographs
Engineer of Architecture
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is a political unit consisting of an urban area and the surrounding rural countryside called?
City-state
Kingdom
Country
Empire
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is a ziggurat?
Jewish house of worship
A pyramid shaped tower used for religious ceremonies
A horse drawn carriage
A Sumerian city-state
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following civilizations were located in the region of Mesopotamia?
Check all that apply.
Greek
Babylonian
Egyptian
Sumerian
- 11. Multiple Choice
This picture shows an area known as the..Farming CurveFertile CrescentGreen CFertile Curve - 12. Multiple ChoiceSkilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products were calledPriestsArtisansScribesHeros
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?GilgameshHammarabuiNinevehSargon
- 14. Multiple ChoiceCivilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?the Persian Gulf and the Mediterraneanthe Tigris and the Persian Gulfthe Persian Gulf and the Euphratesthe Euphrates and the Tigris
- 15. Multiple ChoiceA Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called ascribe.cradle.Gilgamesh.ziggurat.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?artisansscribesheads of householdsmerchants
- 17. Multiple Choice
Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.
business class
lower class
middle class
upper class
- 18. Multiple ChoiceBuilding dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to cropsirrigationnomadszigguratscribes
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe word "Mesopotamia" meansmiddle of the fertile crescentland in the middle of the desertland between the riversland north of the sea
- 20. Multiple ChoiceBelief in more than one godPolytheismMonotheismTheocracyTheology
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