Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
Suggestions for you
10 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
messy region to live in
region that can be tamed
land between two rivers
land near the mountains
- 2. Multiple Choice
Identify the picture and explain its importance to Sumer.
crusty bread - helped with the stable food supply.
tool technology - used as a stepping stone when soil was wet.
cuneiform tablet - written language that helped with record keeping.
artwork - provided beauty in homes by hanging on walls.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Name the two bodies of water that provided water for Mesopotamia.
Nile River and Black Sea
Tigris River and Persian Gulf
Euphrates River and Tigris River
Euphrates River and Nile River
- 4. Multiple Choice
This structure was the most important building within a city-state.
The palace
The ziggurat
The surplus food supply room
The two-story homes of the priests
- 5. Multiple Choice
How did Sumerians solve the problem of attacks by neighboring communities?
They had wars
They built walls
They met and signed treaties
They created guns
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a city-state?The area inside the city wallThe city and the countryside around it.The farmlandThe market place
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the name for a person who could read and write in Sumer?kinggovernment officialscribewriter
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat is cuneiform?a way of worshipa system of farminga system of writinga type of medicine
- 9. Multiple Choice
Bringing water to your crops. Including: Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches
irrigation
nomads
ziggurat
scribes
- 10. Multiple Choice
Another word for a trader is a(n)
artisan
merchant
scribe
ziggurat
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags