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WorksheetsAncient Mesopotamia
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The Middle Classes in Sumer consisted of
Slaves who worked on the farms or in the temples
Kings, Priests
Warriors and Government Officials
Artists, Merchants, farmers
"Mesopotamia" means
The Land Between Two Rivers
Wagon Wheel Society
Fertile Crescent Land
River Valley Land
What did farmers do to control seasonal flooding?
grew enough food to feed a lot of people
built dams and channels
moved from place to place
made laws for people to follow
Tigris and Euphrates
are two towns in the Fertile Crescent
are two cities in Africa
are two rivers that flowed along the sides of the Fertile Crescent
are the names of the two rulers of Mesopotamia
The Mesopotamian king who recorded a system of laws was
Hammurabi
Henry
Gilgamesh
Stanon
The problem with flooding in Mesopotamia was
They ran out of water in the spring
Floods happened during the same time each year
Farmers would move their crops because of the floods
They never knew when it would flood
What was the order of the social structure in Ancient Mesopotamia
rulers and priests, captured slaves, merchants and peasant farmers
merchants, peasant farmers, captured slaves and rulers and priests
peasant farmers, captured slaves, merchants and rulers and priests
rulers and priests, merchants, peasant farmers and captured slaves
The religion of Ancient Mesopotamia was
Monotheistic
Autotheistic
Chromotheistic
Polytheistic
Cuneiform was written
on clay tablets
on sheets of thin bamboo
on wooden scrolls
on sides of homes and wheeled carts
What did King Nebuchadnezzar create for his wife?
a wheeled cart
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
the Persian Empire
a beautiful home
King Gilgamesh was believed to be a
demigod
an old man
actually a plain man
weird
An agricultural area with a walled city in the center of the region, ruled by its own government led by a king
Ziggurat
an Empire
a city-state
an ancient civilization
A social order ruled by a king
Democracy
Theocracy
Polytheistic
Monarchy
Some cultural achievements of the Ancient Mesopotamians include
making fine jewelry
learning how to first make fire
hunting and gathering
using refrigeration
Cyrus the Great
Built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Learned how to first make fire
Founded the Persian Empire
Was the first king of Sumer
Regular flooding provided fertile silt for farmlands
True
False
Two crops grown in Ancient Mesopotamia were
grapes and potatoes
beans and corn
barley and dates
eggplant and sweet potatoes
There were______ laws in Hammurabi's Code.
156
10
350
282
A Sumarian long poem that tells a story of a hero is
Hammurabi's Code
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Raven
A Summer Night's Dream
Large temples usually found in the city's center were called
Chaldeans
Ziggurats
Akkadians
Cuneiforms
Sumer was the world's first
Open market
Trade Center
Dynasty
Major Civilization
Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia included the use of basic
captured slaves
math and geometry
an eye for an eye
Cyrus the Great
The Akkadians overtook the Sumerians around 2270 BCE
True
False
The first major civilization in Mesopotamia with many city-states was
Sumer
Tigris
Fertile Crescent
Euphrates
One reason we are able to study Hammurabi's Code is
We learned how to read it
It was recorded on a stone
It is required
Scientists find it interesting
