Mesopotamia Study Guide

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What country is now where Mesopotamia used to be?

• India

• Iraq

• China

• Russia

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What was the economy of Mesopotamia? How did they get resources they needed?

• shipping

• trade

• factories

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Which landforms were part of Mesopotamia?

PICK 2

• Rivers

• Desert

• Mountains

• Ocean

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Which two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia? 

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Jerico and Nile 

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What continent was Mesopotamia on?

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

Match

Match the following:

Ziggurat

Cuneiform

Wheel

Board Game

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Wheel

• Board Game

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The belief in many gods is called:

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Religion

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What type of temples did the people of Mesopotamia build?

• pyramids

• ziggurats

• churches

• synagogue

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The Mesopotamians built with....

• mud

• wood

• water

• metal

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Who invented the wheel?

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Indians

• Americans

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Cuneiform is...

• a form of fancy cooking

• a dance to attract a mate

• a way of writing

• a way of singing

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Mesopotamians had a written language.

• true

• false

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The Mesopotamians were:

• not religious

• monotheistic

• polytheistic

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What is the point of government?

• To make people wear funny hats

• To provide pets for every citizen that wants one

• To make and enforce rules to keep people safe

• To make people believe what you believe

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What type of government has a king or queen in charge of it?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Socialism

• Dictatorship

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Mesopotamia was a

• democracy

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• civilization with no government

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Why is Hammurabi well known?

• He was a scribe and wrote down information.

• He wrote the first laws for an empire.

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Which civilization had the first recorded laws?

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• China

• India

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What is trading?

• buying and selling of materials and services

• banking money

• inventing new products

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Mesopotamia's money

• pesos

• dollars

• shekels

• pounds

Reorder

Reorder the following. Put the person on top of the social pyramid first.

• King

• Priest

• Scribe

• Farmers

• Slaves

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Match

Match the following to their job.

• King

• Scribe

• Merchants

• Artisans

• Farmers

made rules

wrote down information

traded with other cities

made things that were traded (pottery)

made sure there was enough crops

• made rules

• wrote down information

• traded with other cities

• made things that were traded (pottery)

• made sure there was enough crops

Multiple Choice

In Mesopotamia, women had the same rights as men.

• True

• False

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Who was allowed to go to school?

• everyone

• only wealthy boys

• only wealthy girls

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What word means to raise crops and animals?

• Agriculture

• Surplus

• Irrigation

Match

Match the following to the right category

• Geography

• Religion

• Achievement

Asia

Polytheistic

Wheel

• Asia

• Polytheistic

• Wheel

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The definition of specialization is...

• People trained to do a particular kind of work.

• An extra supply of something

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Mesopotamia means....

• Land between the mountains

• Land of the Middle East

• Land between the rivers

• Land of southwest Asia

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The G in GRAPES stands for _____ ?

• Government

• Geography

• Global

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Which would be a topic of Geography?

• Rivers

• Hunters

• Kings

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The R in GRAPES stands for _____ ?

• Region

• Retail Industry

• Rulers

• Religion

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The A in GRAPES stands for _____ ?

• Achievements

• Architecture

• Asia

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The P in GRAPES stands for _____ ?

• Place

• People

• Politics

• Population

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The E in GRAPES stands for _____ ?

• Environment

• Earth

• Economics

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The S in GRAPES stands for:

• Society

• Success

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• Safety