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WorksheetsAncient Mesopotamia Quiz
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
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Class
Date
1.
"Mesopotamia" means...?
a)
"Land between the rivers"
b)
"Rivers between land"
c)
"Land over water"
d)
"Water land"
2.
What two rivers were important to the development of civilization in the Fertile Crescent?
a)
Tigris and Euphrates
b)
Mississippi and Nile
c)
Ganges and Congo
d)
Niger and Indus
3.
What did the rivers NOT provide?
a)
Water
b)
Rich Soil
c)
Plant And Animal Life
d)
Burritos
4.
What ability did the environment give the people of Mesopotamia?
a)
The ability to farm and domesticate plants and animals
b)
The ability to kill plants and animals
c)
The ability to generate electricity
d)
The ability to make plants and animals talk
5.
What did a surplus of food allow people to do?
a)
Specialize in other types of work
b)
Get fat
c)
Create the potato chip
d)
Make more people
6.
Why did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
a)
People stayed in one location and specialized in different types of work
b)
People wanted to stay home because they were lazy
c)
People wanted to farm sheep
d)
People wanted to catch butterflies
7.
What did a surplus of food allow people to do? (2)
a)
Trade for resources
b)
Trade Pokemon cards
c)
Trade for jewelry
d)
Buy ramen
8.
What did Mesopotamia people live in?
a)
City-states
b)
Huts
c)
Countries
d)
States
9.
Were Mesopotamian people polytheistic or monotheistic?
a)
Polytheistic
b)
Monotheistic
10.
What did the people believe gods caused?
a)
Good and bad things
b)
Pain and destruction
c)
Happiness
d)
Polo t-shirts
11.
Which of these innovations did the Mesopotamian people NOT develop?
a)
The wheel
b)
iPods
c)
Irrigation
d)
Creating bronze
12.
What did the Mesopotamian people have that helped us learn about them?
a)
A written language
b)
Pictures
c)
Body-pillows
d)
Animals
13.
What did the Mesopotamian people write down?
a)
Laws
b)
Texts
c)
Cellphone #s
d)
Pacman
14.
What is a scribe?
a)
Someone who writes stuff down
b)
Someone who draws pictures
c)
Someone who melts metal
d)
Someone who eats food
15.
After writing was developed to hep with record keeping, what was also written down?
a)
Literature
b)
Character descriptions
c)
Pictures
d)
Taxes
16.
What is an epic?
a)
A long story
b)
A short story
c)
Something really cool
d)
A paragraph
17.
What story did the Epic of Gilgamesh include?
a)
A story about a worldwide flood
b)
A story about a worldwide drought
c)
A story about a worldwide tornado
d)
A story about a worldwide tsunami
18.
What was slavery in ancient times NOT related to?
a)
Race
b)
Money
c)
Being a prisoner
d)
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19.
What was your role in social hierarchy determined by?
a)
Your job
b)
Your gender
c)
Your religion
d)
Your race
20.
Which of these groups of people were NOT in the Fertile Crescent?
a)
Sumerians
b)
Babylonians
c)
Assyrians
d)
Chinese
21.
What was the name of the king who created a written set of laws?
a)
Hammurabi
b)
Gilgamesh
c)
Nammu
d)
Tiglath-Pileser I
22.
How did we learn about the Babylonian lifestyle?
a)
Studying their laws
b)
Studying their clothing
c)
Studying the sand
d)
Studying the chickens
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