Unit 1 Test Review (6th)

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Sargon
• Cyrillian
• cuneiform
• hieroglypics

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

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

Which is the correct order of states in Mesopotamia?

• Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians
• Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Sumerians
• Akkadians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians
• Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Akkadians

Hammurabi's Code was a system of laws that helped

• bring equality to social classes.
• increase the strength of the military.
• maintain order and unity in the region.
• build irrigation throughout the region.