A) Amazon River B) Missouri River C) Nile River D) Euphrates River
A) Babylon B) Hammurabi C) Ur D) Mesopotamia
A) “Land of Hammurabi” B) “Land of the first civilization” C) “Land between 2 rivers” D) “Land of a 1000 lakes”
A) Babylon B) stylus C) Cuneiform D) English
A) Ruler B) Centralized society with a government, religion, and forms of learning C) People and how they speak D) River in Mesopotamia
A) Fertile Crescent B) South America C) Australia D) Fertile River
A) Synagogue B) Ziggurat C) Church D) Pyramid
A) Jew B) Polytheism C) Monotheism D) Islam
A) Egypt B) Antarctica C) Iraq D) Saudi Arabia
A) Form of religion B) Skill or knowledge to make products to meet our needs C) System that groups use to make laws and decisions D) System of irrigation, invented the Mesopotamians
A) The Tigris and Euphrates B) The Red Sea C) The Orontes D) The Nile
A) To keep records B) To keep cows C) To make public signs D) To tell stories
A) Asia B) France C) South America D) Africa
A) True B) False
A) Cradle of land B) Cradle of Laws C) Cradle of Civilization D) Cradle of Islam
A) The cylinders were displayed in palaces and temples. B) The cylinders were used as jars or cups for the wealthy. C) The cylinders were used to standardize weights of trade items. D) The cylinders were rolled over clay to leave an imprint.
A) It is the first written body of laws used to organize society. B) It is the decree that kings use to show their authority. C) It is the basis for England’s Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution. D) It was the first written constitution granting rights to all citizens.
A) snow that melted in the mountains where the rivers begin B) strong winds that blew from the Persian Gulf C) heavy rain falling throughout the area D) ice that had formed on the river broke into bits
A) They were able to trade over long distances. B) They were able to remain isolated from other cultures. C) They were able to grow more crops. D) They were able to build a powerful navy.
A) Tigris and Sumer Rivers B) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers C) Zagro and Euphrates Rivers D) Nile and Tigris Rivers
A) 1904 AD B) 3500 B.C.E C) 10,000 B.C.E D) 3500 AD
A) A new method of fighting B) The climate that the Sumerians needed to adjust to C) A paleolithic tool D) A means to control water supply to the land
A) Culture B) City-State C) State-City D) Empire
A) slave B) king C) priest D) scribe
A) mystery B) fairy tale C) epic D) tall tale
A) poppy B) Sargon C) Hammurabi D) Nebuchadnezzar
A) Gilgamesh B) Hammurabi C) Sargon D) Nebuchadnezzar
A) Hammurabi B) Sargon C) Gilgamesh D) Nebuchadnezzar
A) Babylonians B) Chaldeans C) Sumerians D) Phoenicians
A) glass objects B) cedar wood C) purple dye D) chariots
A) Chaldeans B) Sumerians C) Assyrians D) Babylonians
A) alphabet B) purple dye C) wheel D) a code of laws
A) Inanna B) Utu C) Zeus D) Enlil
A) craftsmen B) traders C) King D) priest E) farmers
A) Sumerians B) Chaldeans C) Babylonians D) Lydians
A) the people who lived there had lots of children B) it's in an arid valley in the Middle East C) it's a land of rich soil that's ideal for agriculture D) it was one of the earliest civilizations
A) led directly to the development of democracy B) was considered unfair, causing people to rebel in the world's firs insurrection C) had such lenient punishments, which allowed for personal freedom D) is thought to be one of the earliest written sets of laws
A) Sargon B) Gilgamesh C) Hammurabi D) Utu
A) to keep people from moving to another city-state B) to protect the people of the city-state from floods C) to protect the people of the city-state from attack D) to collect water that could be used to irrigate farmland
A) disciples B) deities C) rulers D) polytheism
A) farmers B) war chiefs C) priests D) kings
A) so they could easily be found B) to mark the center of the city C) to honor the gods D) so architects could display their work
A) iron weapons and chariots B) fire and chariots C) bows and arrows D) battleships and iron weapons
A) Phoenicians B) Hittites C) Kassites D) Chaldeans
A) the Kassites B) the Assyrians C) the Hittites D) the Phoenicians
A) Sumer B) Babylon C) Ur D) Nineveh
A) people who live in towns or cities with some from of government B) people who produce more food than they need to survive C) all of the these D) people living in an organized society E) a division of labor
A) Geographers B) Archaeologists C) Historians D) Anthropologists
A) The forest was full of animals B) The soil was good for crops C) The hills were rich with gold D) The caves provided shelter for the people
A) New ideas are spread and culture grows B) Populations decrease C) Wars are fought over new land D) Old products are not used anymore
A) To teach people to farm B) To tell stories C) To record information D) To communicate with new people from different areas
A) Monotheism B) Deitism C) Theology D) Polytheism
A) Provided a power source B) Formed barriers around civilizations C) Provided a supply of water and rich soil for growing food D) Provided a route to get to other civilizations
A) False B) True
A) the domestication of oxen B) the invention of writing C) the creation of government D) the establishment of cities
A) X B) Y C) W D) Z
A) The Mesopotamians believed that all Mesopotamians could speak with the gods. B) The Mesopotamians believed that religion and government should be separate. C) The Mesopotamians believed that their religious leaders were the hardest workers. D) The Mesopotamians believed the gods had control over harvests and disasters. |