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A #worldhistory Quiz to review #Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations
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True or False: Hammurabi was the king who united most of Mesopotamia & conquered the Sumerians.
True
False
2
Babylon's special markets where people could go to buy cotton cloth from India were called
Caravans
Hammurabi's Code
WalMart
Bazaars
3
What do you call a group of many different lands that all have the same leader?
civilization
Mesopotamia
Babylon
empire
4
The term polytheistic means
belief in one god
belief in two gods
belief in many gods
belief in no gods
5
Which King rebuilt the city of Babylon?
Trick question: it wasn't rebuilt
Hammurabi
Saldon II
Nebuchadnezzar
6
Under the rule of the Chaldeans, the New Babylonian Empire became a center for
destruction and chaos
war and prosperity
learning and science
poverty and famine
7
True or False: Under the Chaldeans, Babylon rose again to even greater splendor.
True
False
8
Which civilization invented the battering ram?
Chaldeans
Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
9
What two things did Babylonia and Assyria have in common?
Trick question: they had nothing in common
warrior empires and used riches to build grand cities
did not contribute technology and warrior empires
warrior empires and only lasted a short period
10
Mesopotamia is located between which two cities?
Yellow and Nile
Euphrates and Nile
Tigris and Euphrates
Tigris and Nile
11
True or False: The Sumerians were conquered by the Babylonians.
False
True
12
The Neolithic Revolution was when
people began producing their own food
the largest war in prehistory took place
people discovered how to write
neanderthal people began wearing clothes
13
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon became one of the
ancient wonders of the world
great mysteries of the world
myths surrounding Babylon
meeting places for Babylonian scholars
14
What is Mesopotamia known as today?
Syria
Istanbul
Iran
Iraq
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A complex society that has cities, governments, art, religion, and writing
Tigris
Mesopotamia
Civilization
Euphrates
16
True or False: The Assyrians were not great warriors but were great scientists.
True
False
17
The written language of Mesopotamia is called
ziggurat
cueniform
scribe
heiroglyphics
18
After the Sumerians were defeated what were the two main empires of Mesopotamia?
Egypt and Assyria
Egypt and Babylonia
Sumer and Babylonia
Babylonia and Assyria
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Who developed a "code" of harsh laws?
Chaldeans
Hammurabi
Sumerians
Saldon II
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Who was the King of Babylonia?
Hammurabi
Sargon II
Chaldeans
Nebuchadnezzar
