Mesopotamia Quiz

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• the land of plenty

• the land between rivers

• the middle of the earth

• the land of smart people

Who were considered the first civilized people?

• the Egyptians

• the Babylonians

• the Americans

• the Sumerians

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

Three things that the Sumerians invented were...

• The wheel, writing, and the plow.

• The wheel, top, and toys.

• The wheel, the telephone, and houses

• The wheel, the computer, and guns.

What is cuneiform?

• the first writing system

• a game made with cubes

• the first written law

• a seal

What is an epic?

• tax records

• farming records

• a short story that tells a story of the gods

• a long poem that tells a story of heroes

What is a ziggurat?

• a tomb for the king

• a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

• a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices

• a Mesopotamian cigarett.

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the city-states of Sumer, they created the first

• empire
• huge city-state
• nation
• democracy