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- 1. Multiple Choice
Wedge shape writing is known as (DOK 1)
cuneiform
heiroglyphics
wedging
writing
- 2. Multiple Choice
How would you classify skilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products , or make-up? DOK (2)
Priests
Artisans
Scribes
Heroes
- 3. Multiple Choice
Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers? (DOK 1)
the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
the Euphrates and the Tigris
- 4. Multiple Choice
How are Hammurabi's laws related to USA laws? ( DOK 3 )
They are laws that help keep societies keep structure and order.
They are a set of laws that are broken.
They are laws that include going to church.
They are laws that include an eye for an eye.
- 5. Multiple Choice
The Sumerian writing system was called (DOK 1)
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphs
English
Sargon
- 6. Multiple Choice
How would you classify the following social hierarchy? (DOK 2
Kings, Priests, Merchants and traders, farmers and laborers, and slaves.
Kings, Priests, slaves, merchants, and farmers
Priests, scribes, slaves, and merchants
Priests, farmers, slaves, artisans, and traders.
- 7. Multiple Choice
This picture shows an area known as the.. DOK 1
Farming Curve
Fertile Crescent
Green C
Fertile Curve
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these are Sumerian inventions?PlowWheelSailboatAll of them
- 9. Multiple Choice
When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the city-states of Sumer, they created the first (DOK 1)
empire
huge city-state
nation
democracy
- 10. Multiple ChoiceA Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called ascribe.cradle.Gilgamesh.ziggurat.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What was the main religion of the Sumerians? (DOK 1)
Monotheism
Christianity
Polytheism
Judaism
- 12. Multiple ChoiceA city with political and economic control over the surrounding countrysideCity-StateCountryVilliageCulture
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?artisansscribesheads of householdsmerchants
- 14. Multiple ChoiceRule by one person, a king or queenDictatorshipTheorcracyMonarchyOligarchy
- 15. Multiple ChoiceBabylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily lifeGilgameshSargonHammurabiSumer
- 16. Multiple Choice
What facts would you select to reinforce that Fertile Crescent supports farming? DOK 3
silt
floods
in river valleys
hunter-gatherers
- 17. Multiple Choice
What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in? (DOK 1)
India
Egypt
China
Iraq
- 18. Multiple ChoiceBuilding dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to cropsirrigationnomadszigguratscribes
- 19. Multiple ChoiceCurved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian GulfMesopotamiaFertile CrescentsiltBabylon
- 20. Multiple Choice
The word "Mesopotamia" means (DOK 1)
middle of the fertile crescent
land in the middle of the desert
land between the rivers
land north of the sea
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