WorksheetsMesopotamian Civilization
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Ancient Mesopotamia is MOST famous for
a)
Creating food (comida)
b)
Creating writing (escrito)
c)
Making kings
d)
pyramids
2.
People of Mesopotamia also created
a)
air
b)
calendar
c)
math
3.
mesopotamia means
a)
land between two kings
b)
land between two rivers
c)
land between two lands
4.
The rivers that were around Mesopotamia were called
a)
Tigris and Euphrates
b)
Black Sea and Dead Sea
c)
Mediterranean River
5.
Scribes wrote on
a)
paper
b)
papyrus
c)
water
d)
clay tablets
6.
Where did the first civilizations rise?
a)
near the sea
b)
in the desert
c)
Near rivers valleys
7.
The Sumerian temples that were built to honor their chief gods were called what?
a)
ziggurat
b)
scribe
c)
cradle
8.
The Babylonian king Hammurabi is best known for his what?
a)
inventions
b)
laws
c)
writing skills
9.
What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?
a)
India
b)
Egypt
c)
China
d)
Iraq
10.
Sumer is important in world history because it was
a)
the world's first civilization
b)
where human beings evolved
c)
where fishing villages first developed
d)
the world's largest empire
11.
The people of Ancient Mesopotamia invented the wheel.
a)
true
b)
false
12.
the mesopotamians were brilliant -------.
a)
teachers
b)
artisans
c)
merchants
d)
mathematicians
e)
none of the above
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