Mesopotamia Part Two

Which of the following were members of the upper class in Mesopotamia?

• scribes

• artisans

• merchants and traders

• kings and priests

The Assyrian library at Nineveh held tablets of ______________

• laws and codes.

• religion and laws.

• stories and songs to the gods.

• trading and government information.

To support Babylon’s building projects and military, Nebuchadnezzar ___________________.

• collected taxes & tributes from his people.

• required traveling merchants to pay tribute to Babylon.

• started wars through the region.

• stole from neighboring city-states.

Who was the king of the Akkadians who formed the first empire?

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Ashurbanipal

• Sargon

The Chaldeans of Babylon were the first people to ________________.

• use wheels for transportation.

• follow a seven-day week.

• sell goods to traveling merchants.

• build a ziggurat in the town center.

Ashurbanipal built the world’s first ______________.

• sundial.

• wooden plow.

• wheel.

• library.

Chaldean astronomers mapped __________________.

• the stars, planets, & phases of the moon.

• the path from Earth to Mars.

• the distance between constellations.

• the locations of asteroids in the Milky Way.

These people built a great army to protect their lands from invasion.

• Egyptians

• Chaldeans

• Babylonians

• Assyrians

Hammurabi’s Code did which of the following?

• listed a punishment for each crime

• told stories about the gods

• told ways to live a good life

• listed how much goods were worth

Which of the following is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Nineveh Library

• Ziggurat in Uruk

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• Hanging Gardens of Babylon