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Mesopotamia Unit Final - BCJHS 7th Grade
Mesopotamia Unit Final - BCJHS 7th Grade
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1
How would you write the years covered by first century A.D.?
101 A.D. to 200 A.D.
A.D. 1 to A.D.100
2
What did the Sumerians invent?:
all of these
writing
written laws
wheel
3
To prepare and nurture land for raising crops
migration
domesticate
dowry
cultivate
4
Swath of land in Iraq where agriculture, urbanization and the first empires began.
Fertile Crescent
Nile Valley
Indus Valley
Zagros Mountains
5
A negative effect of having many people living in cities and towns was
people stabbed each other
spread of disease
too much noise
too much traffic
6
What are two characteristics of a civilization?
Arts and hunting
Religion and environmental safety
Electricity and computers
Technology and Government
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To tame; to bring plants or animals under human control.
domesticate
surplus
cultivate
nomad
8
How many laws in Hammurabi's Code?
242
282
182
622
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Why did people need a scribe to write and record daily events and trade?
Written language didn't make sense
none of these
Most people couldn't read or write
Their handwriting was poor
10
Why was the agricultural revolution considered the most important event in human history?
Food surpluses allowed peopel to settle in one place
division of labor
All of the above
development of arts and architecture
11
How did paleolithic humans get their food?
farming
gathering berries and nuts and hunting animals
bronze tools
grinding grains for bread
12
Religion is important to a society because
It helped develop new ways or writing
It helps explain how the world works
It helps people specialize in their daily work
It helps divide wealth between the classes
13
On what did Mesopotamians record their writings?
papyrus
cave walls
clay tablets
stone tablets
14
One positive effect of living in larger groups in cities was
more warfare with nearby cities
Development of the arts and architecture
more people having babies
spread of disease
15
Why is writing important to a civilization?
communication in trading and financial transactions;
the creation of literature
all of these
aws to be written and uniform
16
Irrigation systems in Mesopotamia diverted water from which two rivers?
Euphrates and Indus
Mediterranean Sea
Nile and Tigris
Tigris and Euphrates
17
Put these time four periods in chronological order:
Bronze, Iron, Paleolithic, Neolithic
Neolithic, Paleolithic, Bronze and Iron
Paleolithic, Iron, Bronze, Neolithic
Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron
18
Means "land between the rivers" and located in current day Iraq
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Yellow River
Indus Valley
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How many years ago (from today) was 4,000 B.C.?
6,015
3,515
4,015
5,015
20
Neolithic means
Bronze Age
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Iron Age
21
In what ways was domestication of animals was important to neolithic societies?
animal hides or wool
all of these
hard work in the fields
meat
22
Development of new technology was important because it led to:
scientific development,
all of these
government organizing society to complete public projects
new and better warfare techniques.
23
The agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period is the transition from
farming to use of metal weapons
social classes to no social classes
lots of government control to none
hunting and gathering to farming
24
What allowed villages to develop in the Neolithic Age?
more babies
fewer animals available to hunt
Surplus of food from farming
more warfare with nearby cities
25
People within society who are ranked by their job or economic standing.
luxury items
domesticate
social classes
Paleolithic
26
Irrigation is a system of _________ that provide water to farmland.
luxury items
canals
buckets
pottery
27
What phrase indicates that Hammurabi's Code was intended to be fair?
"he will be put to death"
"eye for an eye"
"shall pay three times the amount borrowed"
"he may disinherit his son"
28
Stepped pyramid-shaped temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses
Ziggurat
Temple
None of these
Pyramid
29
During the time period called the Bronze Age, people first learned to
farm
heat metal to make more advanced tools and weapons
use stone tools
domesticate animals
30
Does 2000 B.C. come before or after 330 A.D.?
After
Before
31
What does C.E. mean?
common elephant
common era
common error
common emperor
32
An wedge-shaped form of writing on a clay tablet is called
cuneiform
Greek alphabet
heiroglyphics
Phoenician alphabet
33
Paleolithic means
Old Stone Age
Bronze Age
New Stone Age
Iron Age
34
A stable food supply was important to development of civilization because:
It creates a food surplus and a division of labor
People no longer ate meat
It creates rich and poor people
It helps keep order among people
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Why was Hammurabi's Code significant?
It allowed slaves
It was designed to be unfair to common citizens
Everyone knew what the law was
Leaders didn't need to follow the laws
