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WorksheetsMesopotamia
Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 37mins
Mesopotamia means
Land between the rivers
Land between the mountains
Land of the gods
Land I love
Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?
because the women had a lot of babies
because the animals had a lot of babies
because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time
The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.
Who were considered the first civilized people?
the Egyptians
the Babylonians
the Americans
the Sumerians
What is polytheism?
an amphibian with many legs
the worship of many gods
the worship of one god
the worship of no god/gods
Three things that the Sumerians invented were...
The wheel, writing, and the plow.
The wheel, top, and toys.
The wheel, the telephone, and houses
The wheel, the computer, and guns.
What is cuneiform?
the first writing system
a game made with cubes
the first written law
a seal
What is a ziggurat?
a tomb for the king
a temple where the priests worshiped their gods
a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices
a Mesopotamian cigarett.
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called ______________.
priests
artisans
scribes
heroes
building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops
irrigation
nomads
ziggurat
scribes
What was the primary reason that civilization first developed in Mesopotamia?
Important centers of learning were in the valleys.
The mountains kept out warring tribes.
Farmers could use tractors and other machinery easily.
The soil was fertile because of flood deposits and silt.
Mesopotamia was located in an AREA with nutrient-rich soil that was great for farming. That AREA of LAND was called?
The Flooded Plain
The Fertile Crescent
The Great Plains
The Delta
8. The rivers would flood every Spring and deposit ________which is soil and rock carried by the water.
silt
dirt
flood water
levees
Hammurabi's code was important because
It treated everybody the same.
It was the first set of written set of laws.
It gave women more legal protection.
It was written in English.
The ziggurat was most closely related to which of these features of Sumerian civilization?
Stable Food Supply
Government
Writing
Religion
What is agriculture?
Raising crops for food
Taming of animals
Worshipping gods
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Describes a massive flood
Is the world's oldest written story
Shows a fight between men and gods
All of the above
Often the most powerful people in Mesopotamian society were...
Priests
Princes
Farmers
Slaves
Mesopotamia was divided into dozens of fiercely independent settlements known as...
Towns
Ziggurats
Gilgamesh
City-States
An "Eye for an Eye" is an important concept of
Epic of Gilgamesh
Ziggurat
Code of Hammurabi
Trade system
The flooding in ancient Mesopotamia
Was violent and unpredictable
Happened slowly each year
Source of great rejoicing (woo hoo!)
Totally did not cause drowning
The economy of Mesopotamia was MOSTLY based on...
Trading
Farming
Mining
All of the above
Which word means: a professional writer?
scribe
famine
merchant
bazaar
Which word means: to tame animals?
city-state
famine
domestication
bazaar
Which word means: a city that had its own government, laws, language, and religion?
city-state
polytheism
domestication
Mesopotamia
Which word means: belief in more than one god?
city-state
polytheism
domestication
Mesopotamia
Which word means: no food due to drought or flooding?
city-state
guffa
scribe
famine
Which word means: groups of people traveling for trade?
caravan
famine
merchant
bazaar
Which word means: extra (grain, wheat, barley)?
caravan
surplus
merchant
bazaar
Which word means: a law?
caravan
code
famine
bazaar
