WorksheetsPrehistory & Mesopotamia Test Practice
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 20mins
Sumerian writing is called
Cuneiform
Stylus
Sanskrit
the Phoenician Alphabet
King Ashurbanipal of Assyria is most famous for his great (a) ?
As a result of Irrigation, what other innovations were made possible?
Permenant Settlement
Domestication
Mud-Brick Making
Agriculture
Agriculture is?
(a)
The first Monotheistic Religion was?
Ashur
Zimbabwe
Marduk
Zoroastrianism
The Phoenicians power came from?
Coin currency
Trading
Warfare
Code of Laws
Iron Forging
Which Civilization was the most successful and why?
Which group of ancient people discovered that an extract from the glands of snails made a purple dye that was desired by the wealthy and was very expensive?
Phonetics
Assyrians
Persians
Hittites
Phoenicians
Ashur was the main god of which civilization?
(a)
Due to this condition in Mesopotamia and Egypt, irrigation was developed to make the area suitable for agriculture.
The Mongolians kept invading
The land was too mountainous
The soil was arid
Humbaba was guarding the Cedar forest
Which Persian king’s tolerance of other people’s customs won him the respect of those he conquered?
Cambyses II
Zoroaster
Darius II
Cyrus II
Hammurabi’s Code was important because it was the first time that a state’s laws
were set down in writing.
applied to the royal household.
provided prisons for punishment.
imposed taxes on citizens.
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Today during 1st Period
Today after school
Today during 8th Period
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Tomorrow during 4th Period
Nebuchadnezzar was King of what land?
Sumer
Neo Babylon (Chaldeans)
Assyria
Babylon
On which continent did modern humans appear?
Asia
Pangea
Europe
Africa
What geographic feature is the reason, why the first civilizations developed where they did?
(a)
What are the major civilization contributions of the Sumerians?
Cuneiform
The Alphabet
The Wheel
Ironmaking
Trade Routes
Explain how terrace farming works, where it is used and why is it so useful?
The Persian Empire was at the time of its peak, the greatest Empire in the world, what was one of the secrets to its success?
Extensive Trade Routes
Appointed local rulers
Ironworking
Connecting Roads
War Chariots
Hammurabi's famous code was a system for what?
Irrigation
Mythology
Law
Alchemy
Warfare
Gilgamesh's great strength was a result of?
Slaying Humbaba
His mother being a goddess
His father being a god
His mother praying to Shamash
Eating an herb, he found at the bottom of the sea
