CKLA Domain 4, 1st grade

Question 1

What was one use of the river?

Accepted Answer

trading goods with other people

Question 2

What were the HANGING GARDENS?

Accepted Answer

multi-leveled platforms filled with plants from various places

Question 3

What did Ancient Mesopotamians write on?

Accepted Answer

clay

Question 4

What were the temples for the Gods and Goddesses called?

Accepted Answer

ziggurats

Question 5

Who was allowed on the top of the ziggurat?

Accepted Answer

priests and Kings

Question 6

What building material did the people of Babylon use to make permanent cities?

Accepted Answer

bricks which they baked

Question 7

What was the writing system of Mesopotamia called?

Accepted Answer

cuneiform

Question 8

What word means: exchanging goods

Accepted Answer

trade

Question 9

How many rivers bordered Mesopotamia?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 10

Why is Mesopotamia called the CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION?

Accepted Answer

it was the first developed civilization

Question 11

How many laws did the Code of Hammurabi have?

Accepted Answer

282

Question 12

What continent was Mesopotamia on?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 13

What was the name of their written laws?

Accepted Answer

Code of Hammurabi

Question 14

What is one way we know the Mesopotamian Civilization was rich?

Accepted Answer

statues made of gold

Question 15

Cuneiform used SYMBOLS for writing- these are

Accepted Answer

pictures to represent ideas

Question 16

What rivers bordered Mesopotamia?

Accepted Answer

Euphrates and Tigris

Question 17

How did Hammurabi move water to farther places as the civilization grew?

Accepted Answer

digging canals

Question 18

The Hanging Gardens were built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

The name of the city in Mesopotamia is...

Accepted Answer

Babylon

Question 20

A religion is...

Accepted Answer

people's set of beliefs about how the world came to be

Question 21

Why did people settle along the rivers?

Accepted Answer

plenty of water for crops to grow

Question 22

Mesopotamians were polytheistic: this means they believed in...

Accepted Answer

different Gods and Goddesses

Questions 22