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Stone Age and Mesopotamia Review
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Mesopotamia
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The regions in Mesopotamia were called...
city-states
states
towns
cities
2
What type of government did Mesopotamia have?
Democracy
Dictatorship
Oligarchy
Monarchy
3
People were able to farm in this region because....
the mountains would protect this region from flooding
the rivers would flood and make the land fertile
the rivers would flood and destroy the crops
the desert was hot
4
Taming an animal for use by humans is called...
domestication
culture
specialization
technology
5
The people of Mesopotamia were...
Polytheistic
monotheistic
Catholic
Jewish
6
What was the writing in Mesopotamia called?
Wedge shaped
Cuneiform
Picture writing
Hieroglyphics
7
What does c. mean?
about
in
christ
on
8
Sargon was an important person in Mesopotamia because he...
wrote the first laws
invented many things
was a scribe
was the first Emperor
9
The people of Mesopotamia wrote on clay tablets because this was...
expensive
easy to use
inexpensive
available Natural Resource
10
One problem the people of Mesopotamia faced was...
unpredictable temperatures
unpredictable flooding
too much rain all year long
too much fertile land
11
Ancient Mesopotamia is now modern day...
China
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
12
Many nomads moved into areas with a milder climate and fertile land which led them to be
monarchs
domesticated
farmers
priests
13
What did people of Mesopotamia develop to help them farm?
tractors
irrigation systems
fertilizers
mathematics
14
The most important feature of geography in this region was the...
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Persian Gulf
desert
Mediterranean Sea
15
What do historians call the general early period of human history?
Ice Age
Stone Age
Paleolithic Age
All of these
16
Who was the first person to develop the first written code of law?
Sargon
Sumer
Babylon
Hammurabi
17
Another name for Mesopotamia is the...
Both
Neither
Land between two river
Fertile Crescent
18
Because New Stone Age people could settle in one place they could now
trade
domesticate animals
specialize
All of these
19
Mesopotamia's economy would be based on...
farming
writing
inventing
selling
20
The greatest discovery during the Old Stone Age was...
farming
fire
plow
villages
21
Hammurabi's code of law was the first...
laws with punishments
laws
spoken laws
written laws
22
What did the people of Mesopotamia use to write on?
Papyrus
Paper
Stones
Clay tablets
23
Cave art would be considered a ___________ source.
secondary
old
first
primary
24
Scientists believe the first people came from
Africa
Asia
Australia
America
25
What is this a picture of?
Ziggurat
Church
Pyramid
House
26
Which of these people would be at the top of the social pyramid?
slave
farmer
scribe
merchant
