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Sargon and Social Structure

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 17mins

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Class
Date
1.

Select the correct option. The first king of Akkad was:

a)

Sargon II

b)

Sargon the Great

c)

Shamshi-adad I

d)

Ashurbanipal

2.

According to legend, who gave birth to Sargon?

a)

Ishtar

b)

A priestess

c)

A farmer

d)

Sargon Senior

3.

Akki, the king's gardener, found Sargon in the basket in the river and raised him as his own. To what position did Sargon rise?

a)

Cup bearer

b)

Court jester

c)

King's gardener

d)

Court musician

4.

After King Lugalzagesi of Umma took over the entire region of Sumer, he turned his sights on the city of Kish. What did the King of Kish do in response?

a)

He sent Sargon as a peace offering to Lugalzagesi.

b)

He told Sargon to gather the army together to defend against Lugalzagesi.

c)

He killed Sargon as a sacrifice to the gods

d)

He went into hiding and put Sargon as his replacement.

5.

What did the King of Umma offer Sargon?

a)

He offered him an empire

b)

He offered him a partnership

c)

He offered him land

d)

He offered him peace and protection

6.

What is the name of the 2 cities that Sargon built?

a)

Umma

b)

Babylon

c)

Akkad

d)

Kish

7.

What weakened the Sumerian city-states helping Sargon to conquer them?

a)

The peace among the city-states.

b)

The wealth of the city-states.

c)

The fighting of the city-states.

d)

The unification of city-states.

8.

Sargon's empire was created after he conquered what area of Mesopotamia?

a)

Sumer

b)

Egypt

c)

China

d)

Africa

9.

What determines the ranking of a person in a Social Structure Pyramid?

a)

Their close friends

b)

Their culture

c)

Their job

d)

Their music preference

10.

Which occupations belong to the lower class?  (2 answers)

a)

Kings

b)

Artisans

c)

Peasant Farmers

d)

servants or laborers

e)

merchants and traders

11.

Which occupations belong to the upper class?   3 answers

a)

government officials or nobles

b)

Kings

c)

scribes

d)

merchants and traders

e)

Priest

12.

Which occupation and social class is the most populated?

a)

farmers, lower class

b)

merchants, middle class

c)

craftsman, middle class

d)

slaves, bottom of social structure

13.

Choose the answers that are true of Sargon  (multiple answers)

a)

postal system

b)

1st Empire

c)

Many roads were built

d)

Made a professional full time army

14.

Which choice is an example of an empire?

a)

Many lands, peoples, and cultures under one government or ruler

b)

king ruling over an independent city-state

c)

A nation divided into states that follow the same laws

d)

religious leader that govern the religion and the government

15.

The rights and privileges of women and girls in Mesopotamia

a)

were equal to those of men and boys.

b)

were greater than those of men and boys.

c)

were less than those of men and boys.

d)

were better than those of men and boys.

16.

Which of the following people would be in the highest social class?

a)

Scribe

b)

Merchant

c)

Priest

d)

Farmer