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