Mesopotamia Assessment

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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

What is this an example of?

• Church

• Pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Temple

Babylonian King who wrote 282 laws

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Nebuchadnezzar

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• artisans

• kings and priests

• merchants and traders

• scribes

Who created and ruled the Babylonian Empire?

• Hammurabi

• Marduk

• Nabopolassar

• Sargon

What is Polytheism?

• a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero

• a pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top

• a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• A belief in more than one god

What is a Ziggurat?

• a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• a person who copies or writes out documents: often a record keeper

• A pyramid shaped structure with a temple at the top

• a belief in more than one god

A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams

• Polytheism

• Ziggurat

• Irrigation

• Epic

These temples were built to keep the gods happy as well as used a civic centers.

• Acropolis

• Pyramids

• Agoras

• Ziggurats