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WorksheetsWhy is the Mesopotamia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why was Sargon important?
a)
He lived a good life.
b)
He united the Mesopotamians to create the first empire.
c)
He died.
d)
He gathered the Babylonians and created the first civilization.
2.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
a)
A piece of land that was used for irrigation
b)
The royal farmland that was used to grow sugarcanes
c)
The place in Babylonian history that a new king was crowned
d)
A piece of land that was plentiful in water that the Sumerians used to grow their crops
3.
This picture shows an area known as the..
a)
Farming Curve
b)
Fertile Crescent
c)
Green C
d)
Fertile Curve
4.
Skilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products were called
a)
Priests
b)
Artisans
c)
Scribes
d)
Heros
5.
Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?
a)
the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
b)
the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
c)
the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
d)
the Euphrates and the Tigris
6.
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
a)
Gilgamesh
b)
Hammarabui
c)
Nineveh
d)
Sargon
7.
The word "Mesopotamia" means
a)
middle of the fertile crescent
b)
land in the middle of the desert
c)
land between the rivers
d)
land north of the sea
8.
Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops
a)
irrigation
b)
nomads
c)
ziggurat
d)
scribes
9.
Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.
a)
business class
b)
lower class
c)
middle class
d)
upper class
10.
Rule by one person, a king or queen
a)
Dictatorship
b)
Theorcracy
c)
Monarchy
d)
Oligarchy
11.
"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
a)
China
b)
India
c)
Egypt
d)
Mesopotamia
12.
More food than as needed by a person.
a)
Trade
b)
Domestication
c)
Surpus
d)
Irrigation
13.
Belief in more than one god
a)
Polytheism
b)
Monotheism
c)
Theocracy
d)
Theology
14.
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
a)
Division of Labor (Specialization)
b)
Polytheism
c)
Work Force
d)
Domestication of Labor
15.
The earliest form of writing in which pictures represented word or ideas
a)
Cave Paintings
b)
Pictograms
c)
Hieroglyphics
d)
Sumerian
16.
A person who writes
a)
Author
b)
Scribe
c)
Hammurabi
d)
Illustrator
17.
A belief in one God
a)
Gilgamesh
b)
monotheism
c)
polytheism
d)
scribe
18.
Why was writing first invented?
a)
for texting
b)
to write stories
c)
for fun
d)
to keep records
19.
What was the purpose of irrigation?
a)
keep crops dry
b)
to provide water to crops
c)
provide indoor plumbing
d)
give people drinking water
20.
Just do all of them, you´ll get them
a)
ちょっと、そこ/hey there
b)
なぜあなたはまだここにいるのですか/why are you still here?
c)
あなたは今世界を旅している可能性があります/you could be traveling the world right now
d)
しかし、あなたはここにいます/but you are here
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