Cuneiform

Cuneiform

5th - 7th Grade

20 Qs

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Cuneiform

Cuneiform

Assessment

Quiz

History, Social Studies

5th - 7th Grade

Hard

Created by

Brad Sherman

Used 56+ times

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

People living in __________ Mesopotamia developed one of the earliest writing systems in the world.

Western

Northern

Southern

Eastern

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Cuneiform was developed so that information could be ____________.

sold

recorded

shared

bought

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

This writing system began with pictures or signs drawn on ________tablets.

papyrus

clay

stone

basalt

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Around 3100 B.C. people began to record amounts of different crops such as ____________, which was one of the most important crops in Southern Mesopotamia.

wheat

barley

corn

cotton

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_________drew the sign on soft clay tablets using a pointed tool, probably made out of a _________.

Priests, chisel

scribes, reed

priests, pencil

scribes, chisel

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

True or False- For hundreds of years the signs drawn on clay hardly changed.

True

False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

When farmers brought their _________ to the temple a record was kept, when some was given out this was also recorded.

stones

wheat

hops

barley

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