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Mesopotamia Sumer Quiz

Authored by Alexis Hughey

Social Studies, History

10th Grade

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Mesopotamia Sumer Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

One reason for the development of an early civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys was that

the location protected the people from land invasion 

periodic flooding left rich soil, which was ideal for farming 

these rivers provided a direct trade route between Europe and Asia 

these rivers flowed into the Mediterranean Sea 

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The ______ were the first to settle in Mesopotamia and establish a civilization.

Akkadians

Babylonians

Assyrians

Sumerians

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What is one accurate statement about Mesopotamian religion?

It did not go as in depth as nomadic religions

The people in Mesopotamia did not take it very seriously

They were polytheistic and believed in a very extensive afterlife

They believed that they did not need to worry about a good life to prepare for an afterlife

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What is the correct form of writing matched with its user that is considered the first writing system?

Sumerians / hieroglyphics

Sumerians / cuneiform 

Babylonians/ cuneiform

Akkadians/ hieroglyphics

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

All of the following are requirements of civilization EXCEPT

Culture

Coined Money

Society (social classes)

Political Organization

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

This is a group of people who have a complex society, an organized government, art, religion, class division, and a writing system?

Domestication 
Organization 
Agriculture 
Civilization 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

This was one of the first civilizations and means "land between rivers."

Mesopotamia 
Sumer
Fertile Crescent
Iraq 

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