Mesopotamia Quiz

Earliest form of sumerian writing

• Polytheism

• Cuneiform

• Menes

Belief in many Gods

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Menes

People moving from place to place

• Nomads

• Wanderers

• Brahmans

Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Egypt

• Ancient India

• Mesopotamia

The belief in one God is called:

• Polytheism

• Christianity

• Monotheism

Early humans and their closest relatives are called:

• anthropologists

• hominids

• nomads

The process in which new ideas, customs, and technologies spread from one people to another is called:

• cultural diffusion

• nirvana

• cuneiform

Why is the Code of Hammurabi significant in world history?

• It was the code to unlock Hammurabi’s secrets.

• It was a record of events in Babylon.

• It was the first major collection of laws.

Neolithic (New Stone Age) ended the Paleolithic, nomadic lifestyle by:

• Learning how to farm and tame animals

• Learning new forms of writing

• Inventing fire

Archaeology can best be described as:

• The study of the human race

• The digging and study of ancient artifacts

• The study of early plant and animal life