Mesopotamia

Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?

• Sumerians

• Chaldeans

• Babylonians

• Hittites

What is a pyramid- shaped structure with a temple at the top called?

• Temple

• Pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Nebuchadnezzar

People who study the heavenly bodies?

• Doctors

• Dentists

• Astronomers

• Astronauts

_______ studied the ancient system of writing known as cuneiform.

• scribes

• tribes

• astronomers

• farmers

The first large army to use iron weapons was the ________.

• Babylonians

• Hittites

• Sumerians

• Assyrians

The site of one of the world's first libraries?

• Nineveh

• Ziggurat

• Ur

• Tewksbury

Who is the hero of an epic in which he traveled the world performing great deeds?

• Hammurabi

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Gilgamesh

• Nineveh

Sumerian kings were probably war _______.

• heroes

• empires

• scribes

• farmers

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

• Babylonians

• Sumerians

• Chaldeans

• Assyrian

Sargon created the world's first _____ that lasted more than 200 years.

• stone block

• empire

• mud brick

• language