WorksheetsWorld Cultures Mesopotamia Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 17mins
Mesopotamia literally means _________________________________.
'the land of the fertile crescent'.
'the land of the rising sun'
'the land of the ancient kings'
'the land between the rivers'
__________________ involved using styluses to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets.
hieroglyphics
cuneiform
calligraphy
pictographs
What role did silt play in the development of Mesopotamia?
It made the land fertile for agriculture (farming).
It caused frequent flooding.
It was used as a building material.
It hindered transportation.
Hammurabi was most famous for what achievement?
The invention of the wheel
The construction of the Hanging Gardens
The Code of Hammurabi
The founding of Babylon
What is a ziggurat?
An ancient Mesopotamian religious temple.
A type of ancient Egyptian pyramid
A type of Roman amphitheater
A type of Greek temple
What is division of labor?
The allocation of resources in a way that maximizes the production of goods and services.
The process of dividing a market into distinct subsets of consumers with common needs.
The separation of powers within a government to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
The arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job
What are scribes?
A person who writes keeps written records
A tool used for writing
A type of ancient paper
A form of communication
What is polytheism?
Belief in one god
Belief in many gods
Belief in no gods
Belief in spirits
What is irrigation?
A method of supplying water to crops
A technique for harvesting crops
A process of planting seeds
A way to fertilize the soil
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A Greek philosophical text
A famous ancient Egyptian pyramid
A set of laws from ancient Mesopotamia
A Roman architectural style
Babylon and other parts of Mesopotamia were located in which modern-day country?
Iraq
Egypt
Turkey
Syria
In the video Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond compared the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) to New Guinea. According to Diamond, why do white men have so much cargo and New Guineans have so little?
Due to differences in intelligence between the two groups.
Because of the geographical luck of the Fertile Crescent.
As a result of New Guinea's lack of natural resources.
Because of the cultural practices of New Guineans.
List the 4 characteristics of a civilization.
Food surplus, division of labor, social hierarchy, organized society
Hunting, Nomadism, Spoken Traditions, and Animism
Industrialization, Democracy, Technology, and Globalization
Feudalism, Monarchy, Trade, and Exploration
__________ is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Egypt
What is the southern area of Mesopotamia called where first civilizations developed?
Syria
Iraq
Mesopotamia
Sumer
What job is at the top of the social hierarchy pyramid?
Priests
Slaves
King
Craftspeople, scribes, merchants
Farmers
What job is at the bottom of the social hierarchy pyramid?
Priests
Slaves
King
Craftspeople, scribes, merchants
Farmers
What is an empire?
division of society by class or rank
process of modifying the environment in order to use it more effectively (raising crops and livestock)
a way of supplying water to an area of land
Land with different territories and people under a single ruler
Label the social hierarchy for Ancient Mesopotamia.
Put the following steps in correct order.
City-states in Sumer fought each other to gain ________.
access to the rivers
the Fertile Crescent
irrigation
farmland
What term means the division of society by rank or class?
Food Surplus
Social Hierarchy
Scribe
Division of labor
In the formation of a (a) having a food surplus would lead to (b) .
Which famous king created the first permanent army and created the first empire?
Sargon
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Babylon was located in what is now modern- day _________.
Egypt
India
China
Iraq
Which group of people created the first alphabet?
Phoenicians
Babylonians
Sumerians
Akkadians
