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WorksheetsMesopotamia Test Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Long narrative poem recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero
City State
Epic
Polytheism
Belief in multiple gods
Polytheism
Cuneiform
Ziggurat
A city with its own government and political independence
Continent
Empire
City-State
Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
Cuneiform
Pictographs
Alphabet
Large building with a temple at its peak where the gods live
Temple
Ziggurat
Pyramid
The application of controlled amounts of water to plants
Plow
Wheel
Irrigation
The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was
between two rivers
in the moutains
near a region of conflict
A society has a stable food supply if
it gives food to the king
it has a surplus of food for its people.
it gets food from hunting
Using natural resources found in the environment, Sumerians built strong walls with
rocks shaped as squares
bricks made of mud
limestone
Sumerians first used the wheel to make
Carts and Chariots
Plows
Music
The Sumerian civilization had a social structure with different social levels and jobs. A social structure is
how much taxes are collected
how the government treats everyone
the way a civilization is organized.
An artisan is someone who
sells plows
practices crafts such as metalworking
practices religion
Why were scribes important in Sumerian government?
Teachers
Government Workers
Write down laws and stories
Whose responsibility was it to lead the army, enforce Laws, and have temples built?
Preist
King
Scribes
Which of these did the Akkadians use to gain power over Sumer?
Military
Technology
Religion
For what is Hammurabi best remembered?
Code of Laws
Hanging Gardens
Military Conquests
According to the map, what major physical feature lies between the waters of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Zagros Mountains
Nile River
The building in the picture was most closely related to which of these features of Sumerian civilization?
food
writing
religion
This image shows cuneiform, the written language of the Sumerians. What did Sumerians use to produce cuneiform
Poles pulled by oxen
feathers from large birds
a wedge-shaped stylus
Who conquered the land of the Israelites and took many Israelites to Babylon as captives and created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Sargon
Marduk
Nebuchadnezzar
The Assyrians use the things on this list mainly to
collect tazes
conquer cities
destroy crops
Who is at the top of the Social Class Pyramid
Slaves
Kings and Priests
Merchants
Who is 2nd highest on the social class pyramid?
Kings
Nobles
Merchants
Who is 3rd on the social class pryamid
Slaves
Merchants
Kings
Who is lowest on the social class pyramid?
Kings
Merchants
Slaves
True or False.. Is the PLOW a Mesopotamian achievement
True
False
True or False.. Is IRRIGATION a Mesopotamian achievement
True
False
True or False.. Is the WHEEL a Mesopotamian achievement
True
False
