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Fertile Crescent and Ancient Mesopotamia

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what present day country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located?

a)

Egypt

b)

Iraq

c)

Turkey

2.

What group of people established the first civilization?

a)

Babylonians

b)

Summerians

c)

Persians

3.

What is Mesopotamia referred to as?

a)

The Far East

b)

The Fertile Desert

c)

The Cradle of Civilization

4.

Monotheism is the belief in one god.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Polytheism is the belief in one god.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who built the Hanging Gardens

a)

Hammurabi

b)

Nebuchandnezzer II

c)

Sargon

7.

What Mesopotamia civilizations was considered as a warrior society

a)

Assyrians

b)

Babylonians

c)

Sumerians

8.

What TWO rivers were important to the Mesopotamia civilizations?

a)

Tigirs

b)

Nile

c)

Euphrates

9.

What civilization was the first to write and record their laws?

a)

Sumerians

b)

Chaldeans

c)

Babylonians

10.

In what order did civilization grow in Mesopotamia?

a)

from villages to cities to hunter and gathers

b)

from cities to villages to hunter and gathers

c)

from hunter and gathers to cities to villages

d)

from hunter and gathers to villages to cities

11.

Why were people able to begin trading with others in the area?

a)

They had extra food

b)

They ate everything they grew

c)

They spent all their time farming

d)

They lived close to one another

12.

What kind of government did the civilizations of Mesopotamia have?

a)

Monarachy

b)

Republic

c)

Dictatorship

13.

A scribe was a person who could read and write. Often hired to write letters or record documents.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Mesopotamian writing that consisted of shapes and lines produced by a wedge shaped instrument on a clay table was cuneiform.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The Sumerian numbering system that is still in use today is based on which number?

a)

5

b)

10

c)

30

d)

60

16.

A advantage of Mesopotamia was that the land provided natural protection from invaders.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

The Fertile Crescent is an arch-shaped area in the Middle East?

a)

true

b)

false

18.

Hammurabi was which empire's greatest ruler?

a)

Sumer

b)

Persia

c)

Assyria

d)

Babylon