Mesopotamia Review Quiz

Mesopotamia Review Quiz

• Geography ​

• The Standard of Ur

• ​Elements of Civilization

• ​Empires

• ​Cuneiform

• ​Hammurabi's Code

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Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means...

• desert

• mountains

• the land between two rivers

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Mesopotamia is located in the modern country of...

• Iran

  (Ancient Persia)

• Turkey

  (Where Ms. Torres got married)

• Iraq

  (The country America was at war with for approximately 20 years.)

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What two rivers run through Mesopotamia? 

• The Tigris 

  and Nile Rivers

• The Tigris

  and

  Euphrates Rivers

• The Nile and Mississippi Rivers

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What caused Sumerian farming villages to build larger communities?

• The desire for a more diverse community.

• The need to build and maintain irrigation systems.

• The hunger for power and authority.

• The need to protect themselves from their enemies.

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How did the Akkadians change the Sumerian city-states?

• They banned the Sumerian religion.

• They destroyed the Sumerian irrigation systems.

• They conquered the independent city-states and united them into one empire.

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What did the Akkadian and Sumerian cultures share?

• They spoke the same language.

• They worshipped the same gods.

• They both used cuneiform writing.

• THEY SHARED ALL 3 OF THESE CULTURAL ELEMENTS

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On the front side of the Standard of Ur, we see an artistic representation of the Sumerian...

• writing

• social structure

• religion

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The large figure sitting on the top row of the Standard of Ur is believed to be a king.  This is an example of 

• writing
• technology
• government

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What did Hammurabi use to unify the Babylonian empire and preserve order? 

• a code of laws 

• A network of spies 

• Lots of prizes and rewards 

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Why was Hammurabi's Code an important achievement?

• It was the first set of laws to be written down.

• It was the first set of laws that treated ALL people equally.

• It was the earliest form of a constitution.

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How did all the Mesopotamian empires make sure there was plenty of food for their people?

• They insisted that all adult males become farmers.

• They forced conquered people to give up their food.

• They built and maintained complex irrigation systems to water crops of food.

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The ziggurat at the center of each city-state is an example of what element of civilization?

• writing

• religion

• social structure 

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What new weapon did the Assyrians develop for warfare?

• A crossbow

• A battering ram

• A catapult

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The lyre is an example of which element of civilization?

• writing

• the arts

• social structure

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How did Hammurabi keep the Babylonians from questioning or changing his laws?

• He enforced a strict death penalty for those questioning the law.

• He claimed the laws came from the god Shamash and thus could not be questioned.

• Hammurabi actually encouraged debate and changed the laws all the time.

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The wheel is an example of which element of civilization?

• technology

• religion

• social structure

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Cuneiform is an example of which element of civilization?

• writing

• religion

• social structure

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Which is the proper sequence of empires that ruled Mesopotamia?

• Neo-Babylonian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian

• Assyrian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian.

• Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian

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Which Mesopotamian would most likely live in a fancy two-story house near the center of the city and the ziggurat?

• a farmer

• a government official

• a craftsperson

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Each Mesopotamian empire got progressively bigger. Why did Mesopotamian emperors continually try to conquer and add more land to their territory?

• More land means access to more natural resources.

• Adding more land usually involves adding more people to your population.

• Adding more people means you can collect more taxes.

• ALL 3 OF THESE OPTIONS ARE CORRECT!

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Which Mesopotamian would most likely live in a small house near the outside of the city?

• A farmer

• A government official

• A merchant

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Which of the following is a cultural and military achievement of the Neo-Babylonians?

• The Ishtar Gates

• The sundial

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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How were Sumerian religion and government connected?

• Sumerians believed that the king got power from the gods.

• Sumerians believed that a giant flying spaghetti god sent secret messages to the king through his dinner.

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Who will come and finally conquer the Mesopotamian region and take it from the Mesopotamians?

• Cyrus the Great and the Persians

• Alexander the Great and the Greeks

• Ramses the Great and the Egyptians

Multiple Choice

Farming and domestication of animals is...

• art

• government

• agriculture

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Which of these leaders came first?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Ashurbanipal

• Nebuchadnezzar II

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What do we call a hierarchy that has important people at the top, a lower class at the bottom, and various types of jobs?

• social structure

• art

• agriculture

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What do we call a system of beliefs and forms of worship (prayer, music, gifts, and sacrifices)?

• religious system

• highly developed culture (art)

• stable food supply

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What do we call the system of having rulers who make laws and enforce them?

• agriculture

• highly developed culture (art)

• government

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Cuneiform was Sumer’s …

• stable food supply

• written language

• agriculture

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The word "cuneiform" literally means...

• wedge-shaped

  (a wedge is a triangle)

• circle-shaped

• square shaped

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People taught to read and write cuneiform could become

• farmers

• merchants

• scribes

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Cuneiform is a system of writing that evolved from pictographs and ideographs. 

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Early forms of writing like cuneiform were developed to record...

• Love Poems

• Beautiful descriptions of the night sky

• Crops and trade receipts

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