Meso Quick Check

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• The land between to lakes

• The land between two rivers

• The first recorded society

• Babylon in Sumerian language

What does the word "Cuneiform" mean?

• Sumerian style of literature

• Wedge shaped

• Clay tablets that supported writing

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

Who invented the first system of writing?

• Hammurabi

• ancient Sumerians

• Gilgamesh

• the ancient Ziggurats

Examples of this: Sumerians utilized ditches, canals, and holding ponds

• cuneiform
• artisan
• scribe
• irrigation

Which of these items is one of things that a Mesopotamian would need to write?

• paper
• stylus
• feather pen
• parchment

These were people who learned how to write and got jobs keeping records.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans

Which of these was NOT one of the inventions created by the Sumerians?

• axe
• plow
• sailboat
• wheel

Mesopotamians developed a system of math utilizing ___, directly leading to time and geometry as we know them today.

• Base 10

• Base 60

• Base 5

What is the difference between Prehistoric society and Mesopotamian society?

• Prehistoric people were hunter gatherers, Mesopotamian people were farmers.

• Prehistoric people did not leave written history, Mesopotamian people left extensive writings.

• Prehistoric people were nomads, Mesopotamian people built cities and lived in them.

• All of these

Most city-states of Mesopotamia used ________ as their primary building material.

• Concrete

• Wood

• Metal

• Mud Brick