Mesopotamian Civilization and Culture

What are the two rivers that irrigate the plains of Mesopotamia?

• Nile and Amazon

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Danube and Rhine

• Ganges and Indus

Around what year did the domestication of wheat and barley occur in Mesopotamia?

• 4000 BCE

• 6000 BCE

• 3000 BCE

• 5000 BCE

Which city is considered the oldest in the world with a population possibly reaching 30,000 inhabitants?

• Babylon

• Nippur

• Ur

• Uruk

What significant invention around 3300 BCE helped manage the large stocks of cereals in Mesopotamia?

• The wheel

• The calendar

• Cuneiform writing

• The plow

Which god became particularly venerated and led to the city of Nippur becoming a religious capital?

• Marduk

• Anu

• Enki

• Enlil

Who was the king that unified the country of Sumer and established his capital at Uruk?

• Gilgamesh

• Lugalzagesi

• Sargon of Akkad

• Hammurabi

Which king is known for creating one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes?

• Sargon of Akkad

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Ashurbanipal

• Hammurabi

Which people invaded and caused the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE?

• Hittites

• Amorites

• Assyrians

• Persians

Which language became the commercial language of the Near East during the Babylonian period?

• Sumerian

• Akkadian

• Aramaic

• Hebrew

In what year did the Persians conquer Babylon, marking the end of Mesopotamian civilization?

• 331 BCE

• 1200 BCE

• 612 BCE

• 539 BCE