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A #history Quiz focusing on #Sumer #Mesopotamia for #MiddleSchool
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1
Sumerian civilization developed between which two rivers?
Nile and Amazon
Nile and Euphrates
Tigris and Nile
Tigris and Euphrates
2
A later people to rule the eastern coast of Mesopotamia became famous for trading by sea...who?
Hebrews
Sumerians
Assyrians
Phoenicians
3
Civilizations have an organized government, organized religion, written language, big buildings, and a social hierarchy.
False
True
4
Which "green" Wonder of the Ancient World was built by a Chaldean King for his homesick wife?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Pyramids
Great Wall of China
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
5
A Sumerian temple is also called a
pyramid
ziggurat
palace
Colosseum
6
Phoenician purple dye was made from...
camel guts
fish scales
snail slime
snake spit
7
People who believe in many gods are...
Monotheostic
Polytheistic
Agnostic
Atheistic
8
The first laws to be written and posted in Babylonia are known as ""Hammurabi's..."
rules
code
laws
commandments
9
About which fictional king was an "Epic" poem written in cuneiform?
Gilgamesh
Sumer
Cuneiform
Hammurabi
10
Sumerian merchants could sell or exchange goods in locations called
city-states
Walmart
trade centers
ziggurats
11
Culture can be studied through by analyzing
APPLES
ORANGES
MANGOS
GRAPES
12
Which of the following inventions helped the Hittites take over the Fertile Crescent?
Iron weapons
Alphabet
Nuclear Weapons
Guffas
13
The Phoenicians were famous for trading cedar wood, but also a beautiful ____dye.
Black
Blue
Purple
Red
14
Kings of Sumer each ruled over a small region called a
empire
city-state
county
kingdom
15
Which civilization is older?
Phoenicians
Sumerians
Babylonians
Assyrians
16
Sumerians eventually developed a complex system of writing called
alphabets
pictographs
shapes
cuneiform
17
Which group of people were enslaved in Egypt and led on an Exodus by Moses?
Phoenicians
Egyptians
Israelites
Sumerians
18
Which king created a list of 282 laws and consequences, the first ever to be written down?
Gilgamesh
Nebuchadnezzar
Sargon
Hammurabi
19
A person who wanders with no set home is called a
nomad
farmer
priest
merchant