Mesopotamia/Sumer

The Fertile Crescent includes parts of the modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. 

• True
• False

Sumerian city-states went to war with one another to increase trade.

• True
• False

Many Sumerians were skilled metalworkers because of the abundance of metal in Sumer.

• True
• False

Sargon conquered all of the peoples of Mesopotamia, creating the world’s first empire that lasted more than 200 years.

• True
• False

The Assyrian army numbered around 50,000 soldiers, including infantry, cavalry, and charioteers.

• True
• False

A hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds

• Assyrians
• astronomers
• Gilgamesh
• Nineveh

A site of one of the world’s first libraries

• Assyrians
• astronomers
• ziggurat
• Nineveh

The first large army to use iron weapons

• Assyrians
• scribe
• Nineveh
• Gilgamesh

The first large army to use iron weapons

• Assyrians
• scribe
• Nineveh
• Gilgamesh

People who study the heavenly bodies

• scribe
• Assyrians
• astronomers
• Gilgamesh