Mesopotamia Quiz

Which of the following locations was most favorable for growing crops and raising livestock?

• desert
• peninsula
• river valley
• archipelago

What is the Fertile Crescent?

• a large arch of rich farmland in Mesopotamia 
• a way of dividing society by rank and class
• a political unit consisting of a city and surrounding countryside
• a way of accomplishing a task by assigning a job to an individual 

What was the writing system of Sumerians called?

• cuneiform
• hieroglyphics
• Sanskrit
• calligraphy

Which of the following best describes Mesopotamian religion?

• polytheism
• irrigation
• monotheism
• domestication

What are the earliest known written collection of laws called?

• Mesopotamian Laws
• Code of Babylon
• Hammurabi's Code
• Sumerian Code of Law

Which of the following lived in ancient Mesopotamia?

• Sumerians and Babylonians 
• Egyptians and Sumerians 
• Athenians and Babylonians
•  Egyptians and Phoenicians

What was a long- lasting achievement of the Phoenicians?

• alphabet
• ziggurat
• pictographs
• architecture

What is a political unit consisting of an urban area and the surrounding rural countryside called?

• city-state
• stylus
• ziggurat
• empire

What is a ziggurat?

• a Jewish house of worship
• a pyramid-shaped tower found in Sumerian cities 
• a wheeled, horse-drawn battle car
• the Sumerian writing system 

Which of the following were not achievements of the Mesopotamian cultures? 

• plow, wheel
• canals, dams
• ziggurats, cuneiform
• indoor plumbing, Hindu-Arabic Numerals