Chapter 4 Study Guide Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Question 1

What did improved farming techniques allow?

Accepted Answer

Specialized jobs

Question 2

Which rivers created the Fertile Crescent?

Accepted Answer

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 3

How did irrigation help Sumerians?

Accepted Answer

More crops

Question 4

The Sumerians were the first civilization.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

What did Israel use in their military?

Accepted Answer

Chariots

Question 6

Israel developed writing for records.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Why did Sumerians build ziggurats?

Accepted Answer

Please gods

Question 8

What did the bronze-tipped plow do?

Accepted Answer

Larger fields

Question 9

Who created the Code of Hammurabi?

Accepted Answer

Babylonian king

Question 10

What helped Sumerian economic growth?

Accepted Answer

Trade

Question 11

Sumerians domesticated cows and pigs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Cuneiform helped record knowledge.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

What did annual flooding provide?

Accepted Answer

Fertile land

Question 14

An eye for an eye means equal punishment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What did the wheel help with?

Accepted Answer

Faster transport

Question 16

Where do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers start?

Accepted Answer

Zagros Mountains

Question 17

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flood annually.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What is the oldest written epic?

Accepted Answer

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 19

Irrigation led to crop surpluses.

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 19