Unit 4: Mesopotamia Test Review

What does Mesopotamia mean?

What material did the Mesopotamians primarily use for building?

What did King Ashurbanipal create?

Zoroastrainism is polytheistic.

The Babylonians used the barter system and later...

What does this circle represent?

All these are reasons for the collapse of Sumerian city states except...

The first farming communities developed in the Fertile Cresent.

What was Hammurabi's most important contribution to history?

The Assyrians used all these tactics except...

Mesopotamian economy was focused on what?

All these were important Sumerian inventions except for...

Which empire is this?

All are reasons why the Persian Empire was successful, except for...

Gilgamesh realizes all of these by the end of the poem except?

Which empire was this?

What type of religion were most Mesopotamians?

Which empire is this?

What were the two main purposes of Mesopotamian art?

How did the early Sumerians modify their enviorment to be able to farm?

What was the primary Mesopotamian economic system?

Mesopotamian gods/goddess had all these characteristics except...

Cyrus the Great was an intolerant tyrant who used fear to rule.

What did Darius I create to help govern the Persian Empire?

Taxes came before government.

What does the shaded white area represent?

Who held the power in Mesopotamian government?

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers were prone to violent, unpredictable flooding.

Mesopotamian climate is arid but moderate enough for farming.

The Persian Empire was the world's first empire.

Which empire is this?

What is a theocracy?

Why did the Persian Empire fall?

Who was the leader of the Akkadian Empire?

Mesopotamian weather & rivers were unpredictable & violent, so their gods were...

Nebuchadnezzar II is most known for