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Mesopotamia, the Land Between the Rivers
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Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans
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1
What is located at the highest/center point of a Sumer city-state?
The church
The town wall gates
Middle class homes
The ziggurat
2
What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that made their army stronger?
How to fight with slingshots and swords.
How to train their soldiers.
How to use iron production to make weapons.
How to trade metal and wood for materials.
3
Which of the following is NOT a Sumerian invention?
Tables for calculating multiplication & division
Pyramids
The wheel
Cuneiform writing
4
Why did Sumerian city-states go to war?
To protect common interests.
To form alliances.
They fought over resources and to gain territory.
They fought to increase trade.
5
Which was the first large army to use iron weapons?
Akkadians
Babylonians
Chaldeans
Assyrians
6
Which part of Babylon was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the World?
Hanging Gardens
ziggurat
king's palace
wall around the city
7
Who is Gilgamesh?
The Chaldean King who conquered the Assyrian army.
A hero of an epic who travels the world doing good deeds.
The Sumerian King who established the social classes.
A person who studies heavenly bodies.
8
Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?
Babylonians
Sumerians
Hittites
Chaldeans
9
The first Sumerian kings were most likely...
war heroes
artisans
scribes
farmers
10
What is the name of the pyramid type structure with a temple of the top?
ziggurat
Hanging garden
palace
Epic
11
What were the homes built from in Sumer?
mud-bricks
clay
wood
stone blocks
12
The Assyrian army included...
None of the above
Cavalry & charioteers
Both A and B
50,000 soldiers & infantry
13
Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers are part of what social group?
lower class
business class
middle class
upper class
14
What happened in Mesopotamia during the summer months?
high humidity kept citizens inside
melting snow caused flooding
snow sometimes fell
water was scarce
15
Where were the first libraries located?
In the city of Nineveh
The hanging gardens of Babylon
None of the above
Inside the ziggurats
16
What is King Sargon known for?
Conquering the people of Mesopotamia.
All of the above.
Ruling for more than 200 years.
Creating the world's 1st empire.
17
In 612BC the Chaldeans defeated whom?
Nebuchadenezzar
Assyria
Hammurabi
Akkad
18
The Fertile Crescent includes parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.
False
True
19
Who wrote the legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
Nineveh
Hammurabi
Gilgamesh
Nebuchadnezzar
