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Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 3hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society?
a)
society
b)
civilization
c)
country
2.
Where were cities first developed around?
a)
rivers/water source
b)
highways
c)
farms
3.
Why were ancient cities developed at the location they were?
a)
transportation
b)
protection
c)
shopping
4.
What feature creates and keeps order in society through rules, and protection through the military?
a)
Cities
b)
Public Works
c)
Government and Laws
5.
How was writing used in the past as a feature of a civilization?
a)
newspapers
b)
pictures representing words
c)
email
6.
What feature came about because the early farming villages began to grow a surplus of food and populations grew?
a)
Jobs
b)
Religion
c)
Cities
7.
What feature was developed as farmers grew larger amounts of crops, less people were needed as farmers?
a)
Job specialization
b)
Public works
c)
Social classes
8.
What feature was developed as people began to work at different jobs and began to find different levels of respect or different status to different jobs?
a)
Writing systems
b)
Social classes
c)
Job specialization
9.
What was an important invention that developed the feature of public works?
a)
irrigation systems
b)
the wheel
c)
writing systems
10.
One of the eight features that help make a civilization organized is a complex ___________.
a)
religion
b)
government
c)
city
11.
All civilizations have an organized central ______________?
a)
class
b)
religion
c)
government
12.
What feature of a civilization are large projects organized by the government to benefit the community or city?
a)
Art and Architecture
b)
Social Classes
c)
Public Works
13.
What feature was used often to impress visitors?
a)
Writing Systems
b)
Art and Architecture
c)
Public Works
14.

What geographic feature were all cities in Mesopotamia near?

a)

Deserts

b)

Mountains

c)

Rivers

d)

Oceans

15.

Specialized Jobs

a)

A math term

b)

Everyone does the same job

c)

Different people do different jobs

d)

Social Classes

16.

What is an example of technology from Mesopotamia

a)

Cars

b)

Paper

c)

Cell Phones

d)

The Wheel

17.

Cuneiform is the name of Mesopotamia's....

a)

Writing System

b)

Art and Entertainment

c)

Technology

d)

Government

18.

What was built around a city to protect it from attack in Mesopotamia?

a)

Walls

b)

Gates

c)

Farms

d)

Mountains

19.

Scribes in Mesopotamia wrote on...

a)

Paper

b)

Cave walls

c)

Clay

d)

Stone

20.

Mesopotamia means,

a)

Big country

b)

Mashed Potatoes

c)

Land between two rivers

d)

Land outside the desert

21.

How did the first humans create a food surplus?

a)

Farming

b)

Hunting

c)

Gathering

d)

Cooking

22.

Most people in Mesopotamia worked as ___________

a)

Artists

b)

Scribes

c)

Kings

d)

Farmers

23.

Everyone was equal in Mesopotamia

a)

True

b)

False

24.
The first civilizations arose in__________ because the conditions for farming were good.
a)
mountains
b)
deserts
c)
river valleys
d)
none of the above
25.
How did city-states irrigate their crops?
a)
they built walls, waterways , and ditches
b)
they built underground irrigation systems
c)
they used sprinklers
d)
they relied on rain
26.
What was the name of the Sumerian system of writing?
a)
hieroglyphics
b)
cuneiform
c)
Sanskrit
d)
pictographs
27.
As villages grew and supported larger and more permanent populations______emerged.
a)
cities
b)
dictators
c)
religion
d)
irrigation
28.
The Mesopotamia River Valley was located between the ________and________ Rivers.
a)
Nile and Euphrates
b)
Nile and Tigres
c)
Tigres and Euphrates
d)
Euphrates and Huang He
29.

A temple

a)

Ziggurat

b)

Sumer

c)

Cuneiform

d)

Akkad

30.

a country made up of a city and the surrounding land

a)

Tokens

b)

Empire

c)

City-State

d)

Papyrus

31.

Upper class

a)

murchants

b)

priests

c)

enslaved people

32.

middle class

a)

government officials

b)

enslaved people

c)

farmers

33.

lower class

a)

enslaved people

b)

fishers

c)

kings

34.

skilled workers

a)

specialization

b)

enslaved people

c)

artisan

35.

The region of Mesopotamia is located in the present day country of...?

a)

Iraq

b)

Turkey

c)

Syria

d)

Egypt

36.

What invention made farming possible in dry areas?

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Sailboats

c)

Irrigation

d)

Clay Tablets

37.

Why was the ziggurat important?

a)

It was an area of trade in the center of the city

b)

Built for government purposes only

c)

Temples built for the gods

d)

Homes built for the weathly

38.

What did the Mesopotamian scribes write on?

a)

clay tablets

b)

papyrus

c)

animal skin

d)

Paper

39.

The region known as Mesopotamia is indicated on the map by the letter:

a)

X

b)

W

c)

Z

40.

The invention of irrigation made it possible to grow an extra supply of food which is called...

a)

surplus

b)

scarcity

c)

sufficient

d)

minimal

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