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WorksheetsChapter 3 Ancient Mesopotamia
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
In the land of Mesopotamia 2 rivers flow:
The Tigris and Euphrates
The Mississippi and the Nile
The Rio Grande and the St Lawrence
When the river flooded it overflowed onto
lakes
floodplains
sand dunes
In Mesopotamia the summers were hot and they had less than 10 inches of rain per year. What type of climate is this?
semirainy
tropical
semiarid
The place of worship and business center was called a
capitol building
ziggurat
church office
Advances in farming allowed Mesopotamia to have a
surplus
drought
ambush
Which is NOT a characteristic of a civilization
specialized workers
advanced technology
factories
record keeping
Sumerians were polytheist, or they
never took a bath
slept on pilliows
believed in many gods
ate many vegetables
Who was the highest ranked leader of a group of people?
King
priest
Armour bearer
commander
Sumerians divided its citizens according to their jobs. This was called
levels
class systems
cliques
The first important tool invented by the Sumerians was the
plow
drill
hammer
lawn mower
About 3500 B.C. the Sumerians invented their most important invention:
the electric car
the wheel
the reaper
a floating raft
The Sumerian number system was based on which number
45
100
4
60
At first the Sumerians used a method of writing called
pictographs
typeface
hieroglyphics
maxiprint
Sumerians later created the cuneiforms. The wrote with a ___ on a ____.
stick, mud brick
rock, cave wall
stylus, clay tablet
pencil, 3 subject notebook
People who specialized in writing were
scribes
bureaucrats
secretaries
scribble jockeys
