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Chapter 2 Ancient Civilizations

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Did the Sumerians honor their gods?

a)

Yes

b)

No

2.

Where was Sumer located?

a)

Pennsylvanian

b)

California

c)

Mesopotamia

d)

Mississippi

3.

What do scribes do?

a)

Farming

b)

Keep records in writing

c)

Played video games

d)

Made clothes

4.

The giant brick building in the heart of the city was called, what?

a)

Judaism

b)

Assyria

c)

Persians

d)

Ziggurat

5.

The rivers brought gifts and what else? (3 answers)

a)

Destruction toward the land

b)

Crops flow away

c)

Animals gone

d)

Nothing

6.

When Persians attacked Babylon did Babylon fall?

a)

Yes, Babylon fell

b)

No, Babylon was spared

c)

Persian never attacked Babylon

d)

Babylon didn't exist when Persians was around

7.

How many times did Babylon fall?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

4

d)

2

8.

What did Assyria invent when it came to war?

a)

Shields

b)

Swords

c)

Bat

d)

Battering ram

9.

Babylon created a system of ________ throughout the empire to make traveling easier.

a)

Flowers

b)

Grass

c)

Roads

d)

Lines

10.

Assyria was in open land so it made it easy for other people to, what?

a)

Invade

b)

Look

c)

Watch

d)

Walk

11.

Hummurabi's code had harsh punishments?

a)

No

b)

Hummurabi didn't have codes

c)

Yes

12.

Scribes used ______ ______ to write on to keep records.

a)

Their hands

b)

Frog legs

c)

Soft paper

d)

Clay tablets

13.

The phrase (an eye for an eye) comes from, what?

a)

Hummurabi's laws

b)

Little kids

c)

A doctor

d)

A evil robot

14.

Did the Sumerians borrow ideas from other civilization?

a)

Yes

b)

No

15.

Scribes keep records of everything that happens in Sumerian, what are some examples of what they kept records of ? (3 answers)

a)

Sales,trades, and tax payments.

b)

What day it was , and how many stars are in the sky

c)

Notes, and Letters

d)

Gifts for the gods, marriages, and deaths.

16.

Tyre collected snails for what reason?

a)

Their shell

b)

Their purple dye

c)

For food

d)

For their animals

17.

The new alphabet made it easy for more people, to what?

a)

Talk

b)

Walk

c)

See

d)

Write

18.

Who was the Torah talking to, so that they would leave their home?

a)

Eric

b)

Saul

c)

Abraham

d)

Tom

19.

Merchants sold strange animals. What strange animal did they sell?

a)

Flowers

b)

Sheep

c)

Dog

d)

Giraffes

20.

The coin is a picture of a Phoenician galley that is powered by, what?

a)

Motors

b)

Oars

c)

Wind

d)

Leafs

21.

The Israelites believed that god is present ________.

a)

Everywhere

b)

In the ground

c)

Next to them

d)

In the sun

22.

What was in the middle of Judaism?

a)

There is no building in the middle of Judaism

b)

The ten commandments

c)

A building that someone lived in

23.

Women were treated differently than men in other religions.

a)

Yes

b)

No

24.

Jews lived in houses, did they live far away from each other, or what?

a)

What

b)

Jews did live in houses

c)

Yes

d)

No, they lived close together

25.

Since a god spoke to them they through that they were the... what?

a)

People

b)

Lucky people

c)

Chosen people

d)

Smart people