Mesopotamia Final GRAPES Test

Geography: Which is one of the main rivers in Mesopotamia?

• Nile River
• Tigris River
• Mississippi River

Geography: What is the other main river in Mesopotamia?

• Euphrates River
• Amazon River
• San Diego River

Geography: Mesopotamia's population grew because ________________ allowed them to grow more crops. They could feed more people.

• Irrigation
• War
• Cuneiform

Religion: a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple for worshiping at the top

• surplus
• irrigation
• ziggurat

Religion: belief in more than one god or goddess

• polytheism
• patriarchy
• ziggurat

Religion: All Mesopotamian city-states worshipped the same main god.

• True
• False

Achievements: writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made on clay tablets

• ziggurat
• cuneiform
• polytheism

Achievements: The Mesopotamians invented the wheel.

• True
• False

Achievements: The Mesopotamians made bronze from copper and ________ .

• Plastic
• Steel
• Tin

Politics: Only ____________ could communicate with the gods.

• Priests
• Kings
• Scribes