Ancient Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization

What does 'Mesopotamia' mean in Greek?

• Land of the rising sun

• Land between rivers

• Land of mountains

• Land of the fertile crescent

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Ancient Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers?

• Tigris and Euphrates rivers

• Nile and Amazon rivers

• Ganges and Yangtze rivers

• Danube and Rhine rivers

Mesopotamia was later divided into which two empires?

• Roman and Greek

• Assyrian and Babylonian

• Persian and Egyptian

• Sumerian and Hittite

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What were ziggurats used for in Mesopotamia?

• Massive temple structures used for religious purposes

• Residential buildings for the ruling class

• Storage facilities for grain and goods

• Military defense towers

Mesopotamians developed a base-60 number system.

• True

• False

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Which of the following lists three major achievements of Mesopotamian civilization?

• The invention of writing, development of the wheel, and creation of the first legal codes

• The construction of pyramids, discovery of zero, and invention of papyrus

• The building of aqueducts, creation of democracy, and invention of gunpowder

• The development of hieroglyphics, creation of silk, and invention of the compass

Mesopotamian astronomy influenced our modern calendar in which of the following ways?

• By introducing the concept of a 12-month year

• By inventing the leap year

• By establishing the Gregorian calendar

• By creating the 7-day week

The importance of cuneiform writing was:

• It allowed people to record and communicate information.

• It was used only for artistic decoration.

• It was a form of spoken language.

• It was invented for entertainment purposes.

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Fill in the blank: The Mesopotamians organized___ minutes in an hour.

• 60

• 45

• 30

• 90

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Fill in the blank: The week was divided into ___ days, named after 7 gods/planets.

• 7

• 5

• 10

• 12

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