Mesopotamia

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the selection?

• Mesopotamians mastered the technology of irrigation.

• The Mesopotamian civilization was developed by later civilizations.

• It is nearly impossible for archaeologists to determine when events took place.

• Technologies that were born in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago are still used today.

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Why did people settle in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

• There were many animals.

• No other land was available.

• They needed the water to survive.

• They wanted to build irrigation systems.

Multiple Choice

Why was writing invented?

• to keep accounts and records

• to represent sounds

• as an art form

• to tell stories

Multiple Choice

What does the Code of Hammurabi tell us?

• It gives us a list of laws of Babylonian society.

• It gives us stories about life in Babylonian society.

• It gives us a list of all those who received punishment in Babylonian society.

• It gives us a list of people’s rights, responsibilities, and legal judgments in Babylonian society.

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We have inherited all of the following features from the Mesopotamian counting system except

• sixty minutes in an hour.

• sixty seconds in a minute

• twenty-four hours in a day.

• one thousand meters in a kilometer.