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WorksheetsMesopotamia
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the area of rich fertile farmland in the Middle East?
a)
fertile crescent
b)
surplus
c)
monarchy
d)
city-state
2.
What was the system that supplied dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams?
a)
irrigation
b)
ziggurat
c)
monotheism
d)
division of labor
3.
What were human made waterways?
a)
canals
b)
ziggurat
c)
monotheism
d)
scribe
4.
What were fine particles of fertile soil?
a)
silt
b)
cedar
c)
division of labor
d)
empire
5.
What is an amount that is left over after a need has been met?
a)
surplus
b)
fertile crescent
c)
cuneiform
d)
canals
6.
What is a government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent?
a)
monarchy
b)
surplus
c)
cuneiform
d)
social hierarchy
7.
What was a city and all of the countryside around it?
a)
city-state
b)
division of labor
c)
ziggurat
d)
empire
8.
What is a large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler?
a)
empire
b)
social hierarchy
c)
division of labor
d)
polytheism
9.
What is a belief in more than one god?
a)
polytheism
b)
monotheism
c)
cuneiform
d)
division of labor
10.
What is a belief in only one god?
a)
monotheism
b)
polytheism
c)
cedar
d)
silt
11.
What was a social organization with different levels of authority; a classification into ranks?
a)
social hierarchy
b)
cuneiform
c)
ziggurat
d)
fertile crescent
12.
What was the type of writing system that was developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay?
a)
cuneiform
b)
ziggurat
c)
scribe
d)
cedar
13.
Who was a person that copied or wrote out documents; often a record keeper?
a)
scribe
b)
canals
c)
surplus
d)
empire
14.
What architectural structure was shaped like a pyramid with a temple at the top?
a)
ziggurat
b)
scribe
c)
city-state
d)
surplus
15.
What is it called when each worker carries out a specific task or job?
a)
division of labor
b)
cuneiform
c)
surplus
d)
empire
16.
What was a valuable wood found in Phoenicia?
a)
cedar
b)
ziggurat
c)
silt
d)
canals
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