WorksheetsMilitary Empires
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 22mins
What is Hammurabi famous for?
He was the first to use cuneiform (writing)
He was the first emperor.
He had a powerful army.
He was the first to produce written laws.
What did Hammurabi do with the code of laws to make sure everyone knew of them?
He had scribes write and display them fin public or all to see
He required fathers to teach the code to their children
He had teachers make students memorize them
He required priests to pray them to the gods as worship
Laws are necessary because:
Without them life would be chaotic
Restrains sin
Keeps order in society
All the above
One reason Hammurabi's code is famous is that
it was the first set of laws recorded in writing
it was written in a sophisticated code that took years for historians to translate
it was beautifully written on a single giant stone of polished basalt
it was the first set of laws to rhyme to help people remember them
What are the names of the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
White Nile and Blue Nile
Indus and Ganges
Tigris and Euphrates
Nile and Tigris
What empire came just before the first Babylonian Empire in Mesopotamia?
Akkadian
Assyrian
Sumerian
Persian
What river was the city of Babylon located on?
The Nile
The Amazon
The Euphrates
The Tigris
What country is the city of Babylon located in today?
Turkey
Israel
Iraq
Egypt
What is Assyria?
An ancient country along the Tigris River in present-day Iraq.
An ancient city that is the captial of Assyria
An ancient Mespotamian empire ran by Hammurabi
A written set of laws that everyone under a government had to follow
