6th Grade Final

What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean in the Greek language?

• first civilization
• new stone age
• people from the south
• land between the rivers

What do you call the southern part of Mesopotamia?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Assyria
• Euphrates

When you dig a ditch in the ground to bring water from a river to another place.

• cuneiform
• artisan
• scribe
• irrigation

What was the written language of Mesopotamia called?

• ziggurat
• scribe
• hieroglyphics
• cuneiform

Religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps.

• ziggurat
• artisan
• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic

These people were skilled workers who made clothes, pottery, and metal products.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans

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

TRUE or FALSE.  Sumerians created a 12 month calendar by looking at the stars and planets.

• True
• False

What do you call the land north of Mesopotamia?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Assyria
• Akkadia