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WorksheetsAncient Mesopotamia
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
How would you fare as an Ancient Mesopotamian? (Choose the answer that best represents your feelings.)
I would kick a*s starting my own farm, and I would enjoy it.
I would just be so angry about how unfair my life was.
I prefer the civilization I live in to be already built, a long time ago, by other people.
I guess I wouldn't know anything different, so it would be fine.
Draw a picture of Ancient Mesopotamian life, including as many of the aspects we've learned about as you can.
Which of the following statements are true about this?
That's a pyramid.
It's supposed to look like a mountain.
It's a religious structure.
It's a religious structure that's supposed to look like a mountain.
Around 3,500 B.C.E., Mesopotamian farmers invented this technique for bringing more water to crops.
(a)
This technique of bringing water to crops gave some farmers a (a) , meaning that they had more crops than they needed.
Describe the ways that being able to produce a surplus caused Mesopotamian to transform into the first civilization.
Draw the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers on this map.
Hammurabi's Code was the world's first [five letters] (a) system.
Which of the following is NOT a law included in Hammurabi's code?
If a man has been taken prisoner, and there is no food in his house, and his wife enters the house of another; then that woman bears no blame.
If he has destroyed the eye of a plebian, or broken the bone of a plebian, he shall be injured moderately in eye or bone.
If a man's wife be surprised with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.
If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
Which of the following describes this image?
The king Hammurabi is seated to pay respect to Shamash the sun god.
Hammurabi's Code claims that Hammurabi is equal to a god.
The sun god Shamash is shown as bigger than the king Hammurabi.
None of the above.
What's that stylistic convention called?
(a)
Scholars believed that each letter in this writing system looked like a [five letters] (a) .
What does this civilization have in common with Ancient Mesopotamia?
(a)
The character Utnapishtim is similar to the Biblical figure (a) .
