World History - Unit 3

The area of Sumer has also been called:

• Syria

• Mesopotamia

• Palestine

• All of the above

The written language of the Sumerians is called:

• Hieroglyphics

• Ottoman

• Euphratean

• Cuneiform

What are the two main rivers that run through the area once known as Sumer?

• Put and Cush

•  Jordan and Yarmuk

• Nile and Mendesian

• Tigris and Euphrates

The plagues that God brought on Egypt showed that:

• God was mightier than the Egyptian gods

• the Sumerians would defeat the Egyptians in war

• the sun god was more powerful than the god of the Nile

• flies and frogs are unclean animals

In 1799 Napoleon's troops discovered:

• the Egyptian pyramids

• the Sphinx

• the Rosetta Stone

• the tomb of Tutankhamen

The Sumerians frequently utilized the number:

• twenty

• twelve

• sixty

• 144

The Egyptian pyramids were originally covered with:

• marble

• mud

• limestone

• slate

Hammurabi ruled in the region of:

• Egypt

• Canaan

• Persia

• Mesopotamia

How many specific provisions are included in the Code of Hammurabi?

• ten

• 100

• 282

• 500

Ancient Mesopotamia is now largely modern:

• Iran

• Iraq

• Egypt

• Palestine