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A #worldhistory Quiz to review #Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations
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1
Mesopotamia is located between which two cities?
Tigris and Euphrates
Yellow and Nile
Euphrates and Nile
Tigris and Nile
2
Babylon's special markets where people could go to buy cotton cloth from India were called
Caravans
Bazaars
WalMart
Hammurabi's Code
3
What is Mesopotamia known as today?
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Istanbul
4
The term polytheistic means
belief in no gods
belief in many gods
belief in two gods
belief in one god
5
What two things did Babylonia and Assyria have in common?
warrior empires and used riches to build grand cities
warrior empires and only lasted a short period
Trick question: they had nothing in common
did not contribute technology and warrior empires
6
Who developed a "code" of harsh laws?
Saldon II
Chaldeans
Sumerians
Hammurabi
7
Which King rebuilt the city of Babylon?
Saldon II
Hammurabi
Trick question: it wasn't rebuilt
Nebuchadnezzar
8
Under the rule of the Chaldeans, the New Babylonian Empire became a center for
destruction and chaos
war and prosperity
learning and science
poverty and famine
9
True or False: The Assyrians were not great warriors but were great scientists.
True
False
10
Which civilization invented the battering ram?
Assyrians
Sumerians
Babylonians
Chaldeans
11
The Neolithic Revolution was when
neanderthal people began wearing clothes
the largest war in prehistory took place
people discovered how to write
people began producing their own food
12
True or False: Under the Chaldeans, Babylon rose again to even greater splendor.
True
False
13
After the Sumerians were defeated what were the two main empires of Mesopotamia?
Babylonia and Assyria
Egypt and Babylonia
Egypt and Assyria
Sumer and Babylonia
14
True or False: The Sumerians were conquered by the Babylonians.
False
True
15
A complex society that has cities, governments, art, religion, and writing
Tigris
Civilization
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
16
Who was the King of Babylonia?
Chaldeans
Sargon II
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
17
What do you call a group of many different lands that all have the same leader?
Mesopotamia
Babylon
empire
civilization
18
The written language of Mesopotamia is called
ziggurat
heiroglyphics
cueniform
scribe
19
True or False: Hammurabi was the king who united most of Mesopotamia & conquered the Sumerians.
False
True
20
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon became one of the
myths surrounding Babylon
meeting places for Babylonian scholars
great mysteries of the world
ancient wonders of the world
