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WorksheetsChapter 3 Mesopotamia Practice Test
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
How humans get water to where they want it to go.
silt
irrigation
canals
surplus
division of labor
Soil with tiny rocks in it.
silt
irrigation
canals
surplus
division of labor
Define Fertile Crescent.
A large arc of rich, fertile farmland
A plateau
A plain
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
On what landform is northern Mesopotamia located?
A plain
A plateau
A mountain
A river
How was silt made in Mesopotamia?
During the spring, snow melted on the tops of mountains.
During the spring, snow melted on the tops of mountains, and rivers flooded and deposited new soil.
During the spring, rivers flooded and deposited new soil.
During the spring, it rained a lot.
What were the effects of controlling water by using irrigation?
They dug basins to hold water, dug canals to direct water from rivers to basins and also to connect basins to fields.
Farmers were able to grow more food.
Division of labor was created.
Farmers were able to grow more food, farmers were more productive, and division of labor was created.
Mesopotamia is an area of land between Asia Minor and the _______________________________.
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Which king of Uruk became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature?
Sargon
Gilgamesh
Ashurbanipal
Hammurabi
What are two characteristics of strong city-states?
Skilled warriors and the finest weapons
Skilled warriors and a lot of farmland
The finest weapons and a lot of farmland
A strong leader and skilled arriors
Which one of the following is a Sumerian invention?
fire
paper
wheel
alphabet
Who created cuneiform writing?
Sumerians
Persians
Chaldean's
Hammurabi
Who were the Sumerian writers?
scribes
priests
upper class
polytheism
Slaves are always on the bottom of the social pyramid.
The King is always at the bottom.
The upper class always is at the bottom.
The slaves are always at the bottom.
The upper class are always at the bottom.
Upper class people are wealthy.
The slaves are wealthy people.
The upper class are wealthy people.
The free people are wealthy people.
The under class are wealthy people.
What is a ziggurat?
court house
Palace
Temple
Church
The two extraordinary Persian emperors, Cyrus and Darius lived almost 2,500 years ago. What made them so extraordinary? These men had created one of the world’s ____________________ empires at that time.
weakest
smallest
terrible
largest
A ___________________ is a community that included a city and its nearby farmlands.
City-State
Civilization
City
Rural Area
A society with an advanced level of development in social and political organization and in the arts and sciences is called ______________________________.
city-state
civilization
rural area
urban area
A written set of laws that guided the Babylonian empire. ________________________
Cyrus's code
Hammurabi's code
Darius's Code
Nebuchadnezzar's Code
A belief in many gods and goddesses is called _________________________.
Polytheism
scribe
Cyrus
Darius
The _____ of Mesopotamia divided groups of people who were most and least important in society.
Social heirarchy
Social values
Heiroglyphics
Pyramid
Who was the famous king of the Babylon Empire?
Hammurabi
Alexander the Great
Sargon
Nebuchadnezzar II
What was Hammurabi's Code?
A series of 282 laws to create order in Mesopotamian society
An unbreakable cypher to send messages in secret code
A set of 143 rules about proper manners and etiquette
A letter written by Hammurabi to the people of Mesopotamia
Which battling city was the FIRST to take control of Mesopotamia after the fall of Sargon's empire?
Assyria
Nineveh
Babylon
Uruk
The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires briefly existed at the same time until the ______ Empire took over. It was 300 years before _____ would regain their strength.
Assyrian; Babylon
Babylonian; Assyria
Akkadian; Assyria
Egyptian; Akkadian
The Assyrians were the strongeste between 744-612 BC. The key to their success was _____.
Their leader
Their crops
Their trading
Their army
Which of the following DID NOT help the Assyrian king to rule his empire?
Roads connecting the empire
Using local leaders to enforce laws and collect taxes
Dividing power equally amoung his nobles and officials
Having a strong military
Eventually, the Assyrian capital of Nineveh was conquered by the _______ under the leadership of ________.
Babylonians; Hammurabi
Babylonians; Nebuchadnezzar
Akkadians; Sargon
Assyrians; Hammurabi
Phoenicia became the world's first?
selling Empire
trading Empire
manufacturing Empire
sea Empire
Why did Hammurabi have copies of his Code carved into stone and placed at important locations?
to show the power he had to punish anyone in the kingdom
to make sure that everyone could see and follow the same set of laws
to help visitors to Babylon understand the customs
How did ancient Mesopotamians benefit from the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The floods washed away pollution from the cities.
The floods brought silt that made the soil extremely fertile.
The floods provided power for the mills used by manufacturers.
Which statement best explains why historians chose the name Mesopotamia for the region where Iraq and eastern Syria are now located?
The region had highly fertile soil.
The region was bordered by rivers on two sides.
The region contained the world’s first unified nation.
Who was the ancient Babylonian king who created the earliest known code of laws?
Sargon
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
King Nebuchadnezzar was the leader of which group
Chaldeans
Babylonians
Hittites
Persians
Which Empire had the capital city of Nineveh?
Akkadians
Hyksos
Assyrians
Persians
Which of the following best describes Sumerian advances in medicine?
Sumerians sued natural resources to make healing drugs.
Sumerians became effective at treating different symptom and parts of the body.
Sumerians recorded their observations when practicing medicine.
Sumerians became skilled at using milk, figs, and salt in treating people.
Scribes had power in Sumerian society. What can you conclude form this?
All scribes came from the upper classes.
Scribes could rise through the social classes.
Scribes invented pictographs and cuneiform.
People who could read and write were important.
What is the difference between canals and rivers?
Canals are used as trade routes. Rivers are used for irrigation.
Canals mark borders of a civilization. Rivers divide regions of a civilization.
Canals are made by people. Rivers are natural.
People settle along rivers. People do not settle near canals.
What was most likely the reason that ziggurats were tall?
to honor the gods
so architects could display their work
to mark the center of the city
so they could easily be found
A division of society by rank or class
architecture
city-state
empire
social hierarchy
Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife.
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
Gilgamesh
Sargon
