Mesopotamia Review

What is a benefit of learning to farm?

• more time to relax

• a stable food supply

• enough water for crops

• better tasting food

What did Sumerians invent for writing?

• a reed called a stylus and clay tablets

• a pencil and paper

• a feather ink pen and scroll

• a stylus and paper

• paint and any hard surface

Based on the meaning of it's name, what do we know about Mesopotamia?

• it was home to the world's first city-states

• it was located in the foothills of mountains

• it was led by governments of kings

• it was located between two rivers

What characteristic of GPERSIA are laws, soldiers, and kings?

• intellectual

• economic

• political

• religious

In Mesopotamia, which social class was educated, learned cuneiform, and kept records for kings and priests?

• scribes

• teachers

• accountants

• tax collectors

Which characteristic of GPERSIA is trade and farming

• intellectual

• economic

• political

• geography

Which list describes inventions from ancient Mesopotamia?

• alphabet, iron, farming

• irrigation, plow, steel

• hieroglyphics, farming, wheel

• plow, wheel, cuneiform

What were temples, where priests worked, known as in Mesopotamia?

• church

• ziggurat

• mosque

• synagogue

Who was a famous king that had a code of written laws?

• Sargon

• Ur-Nammu

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

What does it mean to worship more than one god?

• plextheism

• henotheism

• polytheism

• monotheism