Unit 2 Quizizz

Mesopotamia is centered around:

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Yellow and Yangtze Rivers

• Nile and Sahara Rivers

• Mississippi and Indus Rivers

China is centered around:

• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Yellow and Yangtze Rivers

• Nile and Sahara Rivers

• Mississippi and Indus Rivers

Which civilization is the only civilization that experienced predictable flooding?

• Egypt

• China

• Mesopotamia

• Indus River

Which people were monotheistic?

• Assyrians

• Jews

• Egyptians

• Harappans

• Chinese

What was the religious architecture of the Mesopotamians?

• Synagogues

• Temples

• Pyramids

• Ziggurats

Cuneiform and hieroglyphics are both...

• Gods

• Writing systems

• Buildings

• Mesopotamian civilizations

The Sumerians, Greeks, and Maya were similar in that they were all...

• Centralized government

• Socialist economies

• City-states

• Societies that exclusively practiced human sacrifice

The cities of the Sumerians and the Harappans were similar in that they had...

• Canals through their cities

• A lack of farming

• Connections to long trade routes

• City walls

The Epic of Gilgamesh...

• showed the importance of literature in Mesopotamia

• was Egypt's version of the Bible

• showcased the law system of the Indus River Valley

• was a question on China's civil service exam

The Akkadians followed the Sumerians, and after the Akkadians' empire fell, the Mesopotamians split into...

• Babylonians and Assyrians

• Neo-Babylonians and Assyrians

• Chaldeans and Assyrians

• Hittites and Phoenicians

Answer explanation

The Neo-Babylonians/Chaldeans restored the Babylonians once the Babylonians collapsed. Specifically, the Akkadians split into the Babylonians and the Assyrians.