Mesopotamia Flashcards

1

How did people in Mesopotamia control the rivers?

building levees
performing religious ceremonies
inventing the calendar
studying astronomy

2

A ziggurat is a

form of writing
way to control flooding
tool for farming
religious tower made of mud bricks

3

A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks is

an embankment
a dam
a levee
a canal

4

The 2 main rivers of Mesopotamia are

the Mississippi and the Hudson
the Tigris and the Euphrates
the Willamette and the Columbia
the Nile and the Jordan river

5

A large territory where several groups of people are ruled by a single government is

a continent
an empire
a region
a city-state

6

The climate of the Middle East is

tropical
dry desert
sub-arctic
rainforest

7

The kings of Mesopotamia were chosen by

neighboring communities
farmers
the middle class
the gods

8

Which is not a characteristic of civilization?

Social Structure
National holidays
Stable Food Supply
Religion

9

What is climate?

typical weather patterns of an area
how people in an area adapt to their surroundings
exchange of goods from one place to another
global warming

10

Social structure refers to

the organization of government
the relationship between neighboring regions
the organization of friend groups
the way a society is organized, usually a hierarchy

11

A geographical area of the world with common characteristics is called a

continent
region
city-state
empire

12

Mesopotamians avoided food shortages in the hills by

moving to the coast
moving to the desert
moving to the plains by the rivers
moving farther into the mountains

13

A city with its own ruler and farm land is

a city-state
an empire
a commune
a ziggurat

14

True/False: The written language of Mesopotamia is cuneiform

True
False

15

True/False: Sumer was the first major civilization in Australia

False
True

Mesopotamia

Questions 15

Mesopotamia

Questions 15