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