Polofsky-Mesopotamia Quiz #2 PES

What form of government was most common in Mesopotamia?

• Dictatorships
• Monarchies
• Constitutional Monarchies

Who is in charge of a Monarchy?

• Kings or Queens
• Priests and Kings
• Gods and Goddesses

Choose the statement that is true about the Sumerian civilization.

• The Sumerians lived in independent city-states that were independent
• The Sumerians created the 1st empire in Mesopotamia
• The Sumerians were defeated by the Persians

What is a City State is?

• Political system with an independent city
• Political system with united cities

What person and civilization took over the Sumerian civilization and what did they create?

• Hammurabi and the Babylonians who created Hammurabi's Code of laws
• Sargon and the Akkadians who created the first Empire on Mesopotamia

Who was the leader of the Babylonian Empire and what made the empire unique?

• Hammurabi who created Hammurabi's Code of laws
• Sargon who created the first Empire on Mesopotamia
• Darius I who created a standard form of money / currency.

How did Hammurabi’s code “help” the people live better lives?

• The laws were written, fair and posted for the people to see.
• The people knew what the rules, punishments and expectations where.
• The laws were fair and applied to everyone in the society.
• All answers listed

How was Hammurabi’s code different from laws in the past?

• Before Hammurabi's Code, laws were not written and many offenses were unfair and punishable by death
• Before Hammurabi's Code there were no laws and society was in chaos
• Before Hammurabi's Code only the most severe crimes were punished

What does it mean to have a surplus?

• To have less than what you need
• To have more than what you need
• To have just what you need

How does having a surplus of food change the workforce (jobs) and lead to technological advances? Choose all correct answers.

• Everyone is not needed to farm so they have time to learn new skills
• People had too much food and became lazy which made the civilization easy to conquer
• People who were not farming helped develop new inventions