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- 1. Multiple Choice
This picture shows an area known as the..Farming CurveFertile CrescentGreen CFertile Curve - 2. Multiple ChoiceMesopotamian temple used for religious worship:churchzigguratpolytheistmonotheist
- 3. Multiple ChoiceReligious belief in more than one godmonotheismpolytheismatheismBuddhism
- 4. Multiple ChoiceOne of the oldest-surviving and most famous stories about a demigod kingThe RamayanaThe Epic of GilgameshNoah's ArkHammurabi's Code
- 5. Multiple ChoiceSargon created the world’s first empire by conqueringZagros warriors.Hammurabi’s empire.Mesopotamian city-states.Babylonian territory.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The Sumerians are often credited with inventing...
muskets
papyrus
fire
the wheeled cart
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe Sumerian writing system was calledCuneiformHieroglyphsEnglishSargon
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these are Sumerian inventions?PlowWheelSailboatAll of them
- 9. Multiple ChoiceBabylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily lifeGilgameshSargonHammurabiSumer
- 10. Multiple Choice
What does letter A represent?
Tigris
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does letter B represent?
Tigris
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
- 12. Multiple Choice
What does letter C represent?
Tigris
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
- 13. Multiple Choice
What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in? (DOK 1)
India
Egypt
China
Iraq
- 14. Multiple ChoiceArtisans, merchants, and fishers made up this groupLower ClassUpper ClassMiddle ClassPass Class
- 15. Multiple Choice
The wheel, cart, plow, irrigation, bronze, number system based on 60 and cuneiform writing are all inventions of the ......
Egyptians
kings
Sumerians
scribes
- 16. Multiple Choice
A key factor of the success of the Assyrian army was their use of .....
irrigation
astronomy
iron weapons
bronze
- 17. Multiple ChoiceAncient sumer had a government who was their leader?President Of The United StatesA chickenA kingSome random guy
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the Assyrian military know for?ritualsuniformscrueltyfairness
- 19. Multiple Choice
What was the role of women in Sumerian Society? Select all that apply.
expected to teach their daughters the same skills they have.
in charge of running the home and caring for children.
a few women had their own businesses.
They worked in the fields, as farmers.
- 20. Multiple Choice
people who study heavenly bodies.
astronomers
ziggurat
civilization
Gilgamesh
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich river valley civilization is Mesopotamia?purpleorangepinkyellow
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhy did Mesopotamia, and many other early civilizations, form along river valleys?Rivers provided protection from predators.The rivers made the land good for farming.The rivers brought fish from the ocean for fisherman to catch.It was a coincidence, rivers had nothing to do with where people settled.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceChaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wifeNinevehBabylonNebuchadnezzarSargon
- 24. Multiple ChoiceMesopotamia had many different cultures & people. These people created the first city and invented writing. This is why Mesopotamia is known as the _______________.land between two riverscradle of civilizationfertile crescentland of new civilization
- 25. Multiple Choice
In 612 B.C. the Chaldeans defeated whom?
Akkdians
Asyrians
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
- 26. Multiple Choice
These people built a great army to protect their lands from invasion
Egyptians
Chaldeans
Babylonians
Assyrians
- 27. Multiple ChoiceThe first civilization arose _______ because the conditiions for farminig were goodnear the seain river valleysin the mountainsin the desert
- 28. Multiple Choice
Why did Sumerian city-states go to war with one another?
fought over land
expand their territory
gain resources
glory
all they above
- 29. Multiple Choice
Farmers were the largest group in Sumer
true
false
- 30. Multiple Choice
The first Sumerian kings were
scribes
priests
gods
war heros
- 31. Multiple Choice
Assyrian armies were know for their violence because:
burning villages
robbing people
burning crops
all the above
- 32. Multiple Choice
Sumerian boys learned
geometry, multiplication, measurement, and astronomy
how to be king
geometry, writing, farming from their fathers
didn't go to school
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