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Mesopotamian Civilization
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textbook, Ancient Civilizations
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1
Which is known as the earliest civilization?
Babylon
Egypt
Asia
Sumer
2
What code forced all people to follow the law in how they treated others?
Code of Akkadians
Code of Sumer
Code of Hammurabi
Sargon's Code
3
Mesopotamia is located between which two rivers?
The Tigris River and the Euphrates River
The Nile River and Tigris River
The Mediterranean Sea and The Persian Gulf
The Jordan River and Euphrates River
4
True or False. Each city-state had their own government and was not part of any larger unit.
False
True
5
_____ is important because it helps people keep records and pass on their ideas to others.
Painting
Speaking
Writing
Fishing
6
Sumerians also invented the _______.
all of the above
60-minute hour
12-month calendar
wheel
7
True or False. An Empire is a group of many different lands under one ruler.
True
False
8
Who attacked and took over Sumer creating the world's first empire?
Babylon
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Sargon
9
How many codes did King Hammurabi write?
282
280
380
802
10
What has cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system?
Civilization
Scribe
Empire
Irrigation
11
If you learned how to write in cuneiform you were called a, ____.
writer
scribe
judge
political leader
12
People in Sumer were divided into three social classes, what were they?
Past, present, and future
King, artisan, and slave
Sumer, Sargon, and Hummarabi
The upper class, middle class, and lower class.
13
True or False. City-states often went to war to control less territory.
False
True
14
True or False. Sumerians had only one God.
True
False
15
______ allowed the farmers to grow plenty of food and support a large population.
Irrigation
Flooding
Soil
City-state