WorksheetsMesopotamia
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers. Name the two rivers.
The Nile and the Amazon
The Tigris and the Euphrates
The Snake and the Colorado
The Pol and the Yangtze.
Who is featured here atop the stele of laws that they enacted?
Nebuchanezzer and Gilgmesh
Sumer and Ahkadian
Hammurabi and Shamash
Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs.
What is the difference between Prehistoric society and Mesopotamian society?
Prehistoric people were hunter gatherers, Mesopotamian people were farmers.
Prehistoric people did not leave written history, Mesopotamian people left extensive writings.
Prehistoric people made artwork primarily about animals, Mesopotamian people made art about many subjects.
Prehistoric people were nomads, Mesopotamian people built cities and lived in them.
All of these
Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi's laws?
It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.
It was used by many later civilizations as a model
The laws are written in stone.
It treated all people the same under the law.
Which of these are Mesopotamian inventions?
The wheel
The plow
The alphabet
All of them
What is the name of the large constructions built during the Mesopotamian time period? The Hanging Tower of Babbel is thought to be one of these.
Pyramid
Ziggurat
Obelisk
Post and Lintel construction
The few Mesopotamians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?
Artisans
Merchants
Scribes
Priests
What was the main religion of the Mesopotamians?
Monotheism
Polytheism
Christianity
Judiasm
Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is also known as
irrigation
architecture
fishing
cuneiform
All of these people are considered Mesopotamians except:
Egyptians
Akaadians
Sumererians
Babalonians
Who held the highest levels of Mesopotamian society?
Scribes
Fishermen and Merchants
Priests and Rulers
Artists
The Sumerian writing system was called
Ziggurat
Stele
Heiroglyphs
Cuneiform
Most city-states of Mesopotamia used ________ as their primary building material.
Concrete
Wood
Metal
Mud Brick
Punishments under the Code of Hammurabi
were more harsh for people of lower social classes.
stressed reform rather than retribution for crimes.
did not cover domestic/family concerns.
did not apply to the upper class.
Mesopotamian Gods often combined the bodies of humans and animals.
True
False
