WorksheetsFour Empires of Mesopotamia
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Over which of the following groups was Sargon the ruler?
a)
Akkadians
b)
Babylonians
c)
Egyptians
d)
Assyrians
2.
For what achievement is Sargon best known?
a)
Building the Hanging Gardens for his wife
b)
Creating the world's first empire
c)
Inventing peanut butter
d)
Creating the first code of laws
3.
Where is the stone pillar with Hammurabi's Code on it today?
a)
Iraq
b)
France
c)
Funkstown
d)
Spain
4.
According to Hammurabi, what would be the punishment for punching out a superior person's eye?
a)
death
b)
a long prison term
c)
a severe beating
d)
the guilty person's eye would be knocked out
5.
Why did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
a)
He wanted to sell plants and flowers
b)
He wanted to impress his guests
c)
He wanted to please his homesick wife
d)
He loved gardening
6.
Which of the following shows how warlike the Assyrians were?
a)
They invented the battering ram and used catapults
b)
They allowed women in their army
c)
They killed everyone in the cities they attacked
d)
They killed the horses of their enemies
7.
What was the name of the oldest epic story ever written?
a)
Little Red Riding Hood
b)
War and Peace
c)
Gilgamesh
d)
Gone With the Wind
8.
Where were Hammurabi's laws written?
a)
On clay tablets
b)
On a stone pillar
c)
In a big book
d)
On a temple wall
9.
The Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar are called the Neo-Babylonians because the king did what?
a)
made laws just like Hammurabi
b)
had such respect for the Babylonians
c)
rebuilt Babylon after the Assyrians burned it down
d)
built the largest ziggurat in Mesopotamia there
10.
The Assyrians may have burned Babylon, but what did they build?
a)
a library
b)
a ziggurat
c)
a huge wall
d)
a palace for the king
11.
Which Mesopotamian Empire was defeated by the Persians under Cyrus, the Great?
a)
Sumerians
b)
Babylonians
c)
Akkadians
d)
Neo-Babylonians
12.
What is an empire?
a)
a group of states, nations, or people under a single authority
b)
a group with same laws, religion and language
c)
a group with a single ruler
d)
a group that shares the same culture or way of life
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