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WorksheetsMesopotamia Geography and Key Terms Quiz
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The word Mesopotamia means...
a)
green area
b)
first civilization
c)
the land between two rivers
d)
a messy potato
2.
What do we call the area marked with a curved, dashed line?
a)
Civilization
b)
Fertile Crescent
c)
Asia
d)
Africa
3.
What does the picture show?
a)
River life
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Ur
d)
Irrigation
4.
Name the first civilization inside the red circle.
a)
Sumer
b)
Ur
c)
Syria
d)
Egypt
5.
What is the name of this body of water?
a)
Nile River
b)
Tigris River
c)
Pacific Ocean
d)
Mediterranean Sea
6.
Which river is this?
a)
Tigris River
b)
Nile River
c)
Mississippi River
d)
Euphrates River
7.
The Tigris River and Euphrates River both empty into this body of water?
a)
Mediterranean Sea
b)
Atlantic Ocean
c)
Persian Gulf
d)
Nile River
8.
You would find this "small" city-state in the southern part of the Fertile Crescent.
a)
Ur
b)
Mesopotamia
c)
China
d)
Babylon
9.
What is the name of this well know city-state?
a)
Syria
b)
Sumer
c)
Egypt
d)
Babylon
10.
Can you name this river?
a)
Nile River
b)
Euphrates River
c)
Tigris River
d)
Persian Gulf
11.
What is this very green area called?
a)
Fertile Crescent
b)
Zagros Mountains
c)
Ur
d)
China
12.
Name the land feature colored brown.
a)
Zagros Mountains
b)
Egypt
c)
Sumeria
d)
levee
13.
What is the arid area colored yellow called?
a)
Syrian Desert
b)
Africa
c)
Egypt
d)
Babylon
14.
The area bordering a river where the water overflows.
a)
floodplain
b)
irrigation
c)
levee
d)
river
15.
The fine soil picked up by rivers and deposited on floodplains. It's good for growing crops.
a)
silt
b)
irrigation
c)
levee
d)
river
16.
Any area of land that gets little rainfall and warm to really hot temperatures.
a)
semiarid
b)
Zagros Mountains
c)
Fertile Crescent
d)
south
17.
A period of time with little rainfall, in which growing crops becomes difficult.
a)
drought
b)
region
c)
desert
d)
surplus
18.
An amount produced in excess of what is needed. E.G. grain or food
a)
drought
b)
region
c)
desert
d)
surplus
19.
A human society with an advanced level of social and political organization, technology, monumental (really big) architecture, and writing.
a)
drought
b)
region
c)
desert
d)
civilization
20.
What many historians believe is the FIRST civilization in the southern part of Mesopotamia.
a)
Sumer
b)
Babylon
c)
desert
d)
civilization
21.
A political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands.
a)
city-state
b)
Syrian Desert
c)
desert
d)
civilization
22.
Can you name this ancient Sumerian structure at the center of the city?
a)
Ziggurat
b)
pyramid
c)
the king's house
d)
market
23.
Polytheism is...
a)
a belief in many gods
b)
a one god society
c)
a school
d)
a girl's name
24.
The highest ranking leader of a group of people is known as a...
a)
king
b)
prince
c)
dad
d)
chief
25.
A metal that is a mixture of copper and tin. It was used to make better tools and weapons.
a)
bronze
b)
stone
c)
steel
d)
copper
26.
A picture or drawing that represents a word or idea in an early system of writing.
a)
pictograph
b)
cuneiform
c)
language
d)
history
27.
Sumerians used this sharpened reed to press markings into clay tablets.
a)
stylus
b)
pencil
c)
stick
d)
tool
28.
Sumerians used these types of shapes writing cuneiform.
a)
wedge
b)
circles
c)
dots
d)
letters
29.
A person who specializes in writing and serves as a record keeper.
a)
scribe
b)
teacher
c)
king
d)
merchant
30.
A group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme ruler.
a)
empire
b)
city-state
c)
territory
d)
land
31.
This one person rules an empire.
a)
emperor
b)
politician
c)
soldier
d)
farmer
32.
A set of rules for people to obey.
a)
code of law
b)
rules
c)
guidelines
d)
religious text
33.
FAIR treatment for all people, in keeping with the law.
a)
code of law
b)
rules
c)
guidelines
d)
religious text
34.
If you have been forced from your homeland, then you have been...
a)
exiled
b)
moved
c)
gone
d)
sold
35.
A payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection.
a)
tribute
b)
money
c)
payment
d)
goods
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