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Civilizations emerges in Mesopotamia

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf

a)

America

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

Fertile Crescent

d)

Indus River Valley

2.

wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.

a)

Egypt

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

America

d)

Babylon

3.

Irrigate?

a)

To supply water to

b)

Irrs of gates

c)

nothing important

d)

to migrate to new lands

4.

City-state is?

a)

independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

b)

a small piece of land cut off from all civilization

c)

A large group of people in one area that do not govern themselves or have their own religion

5.

Trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money

a)

Bitcoin

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Barter

d)

Capitalism

6.

True/False: Polytheism means to worship only ONE god?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What is a Ziggurat?

a)

Pyramid that Pharaohs are entombed

b)

brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple

c)

Mayan temple

d)

Ziggy Rats

8.

Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things

a)

Hieroglyphs

b)

Cuneiform

c)

Alphabet

d)

Latin

9.

True/False: Priests and Kings had great authority in Mesopotamia because power came from the gods and the gods controlled all parts of life?

a)

True

b)

False

10.

True/False: Mesopotamians did NOT change their environment to fit their needs?

a)

True

b)

False

11.

True/False: The wheel, sail, irrigation, cuneiform and automatic seed funnel were all advancements made by Mesopotamian society?

a)

True

b)

False

12.

True/False: Mesopotamians did NOT have a food surplus due to their fertile land that lead to the creation of cities and city-states?

a)

True

b)

False