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Ancient Mesopotamia Study Quiz

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1
The first civilizations developed around what year?
3000 B.C.
3500 A.D.
3500 B.C.
3000 A.D.
2
What were the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
Mississippi River & Amazon River
Tigris River & Euphrates River
River Thames & Missouri River
Indus River & Nile River
3
What country makes up most of Mesopotamia today?
Iraq
China
Tallahassee
Russia
4
Who was Hammurabi?
An official for a king in Eridu.
A made up person.
A member of a city-state who was a serial-killer.
The leader of the Old Babylonian Empire.
5
What was the "Fertile Crescent"?
A stretch of good farmland
An area of major crime
An important building in a city-state
A book
6
How did the ancient Mesopotamians learn to control the flooding?
By making big buildings at rivers, protecting the rest of the city-states.
By wishing it would or would not flood on any given day.
By building dams and canals to route the flood waters.
By giving tribute to the flood god.
7
Give some famous river valleys where civilizations started. (Mentioned in notes.)
Mississippi River in U.S.
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia
Indus River in India
Nile River in Egypt
8
How did flooding help ancient Mesopotamians?
It provided silt, which was good for farming.
It killed their enemies, but also them.
It was fun.
It provided shipwrecked livestock from other city-states.
9
What does "Mesopotamia" mean in Greek?
"Crazy Town"
"China"
"Land of Death"
"The Land Between the Rivers"
10
How did Hammurabi's Code affect later civilizations?
They built better weapons.
It caused them to make more "fair" laws.
It didn't.
They learned to surrender immediately.
11
Where was the "Fertile Crescent" located?
Mediterranean Sea - Persian Gulf
The South Pole
The North Pole
Mars