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Mesopotamia Vocab 2
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Which was NOT a tool used to write Cuneiform?
Stylus
Clay Tablet
Papyrus
2
Who created the first recorded (written) laws?
Hammurabi
Sargon
Gilgamesh
Ur
3
Mesopotamians believed their gods lived at the ...
Banks of the Euphrates River
Bottom of the Tigris River
Top of the Ziggurat
Top of the tallest Mountain
4
Why is Mesopotamia called the Fertile Crescent?
It is difficult to grow food there
It has rich silt that makes it good for farming
The population increased rapidly
It was a popular area for hunting
5
Which of these was NOT a way to tell where a family was in Mesopotamian social structure?
how close the house was to the Ziggurat
How often they prayed to the gods
How many stories in their house
how many slaves they owned
6
When a society is able to produce more food than it needs it is called
Food Dearth
Extra Groceries
Barley Bonus
Food Surplus
7
Yearly __________ provide rich silt for farming but also can cause damage to crops and humans
floods
earthquakes
tornadoes
harvests
8
Which is NOT a reason Civilizations often begin near rivers?
humans prefer a dry climate
easy transportation
rich soil
water for crops and drinking
9
Mesopotamian farmers controlled the flooding by
building their cities far away from the river
irrigation canals, ditches & building up the banks (levees)
Building pyrimids
creating mini-deserts
10
The first recorded Emperor
Sumer
Ur
Sargon
Hammurabbi
11
Who was the main hero in one of the 1st written epics from Mesopotamia?
Sargon
Gilgamesh
Anubis
Hammurabi
12
The main religious building in Ancient Sumeria was the
Monastery
Ziggurat
Synagogue
Holy Tent
13
Which best describes job specialization?
Everyone becomes farmers creating a food surplus
People share goods
Food Surplus leads to division of labor
Division of labor leads to a command economy
14
Hammurabi's code treated people differently depending on their...
Parents last name
Length and color of hair
Social Class
distance from the rivers
15
The rich soil deposited by floods from the Tigris and Euphrates is called
vermiculite
peat moss
silt
microsoil
16
Mesopotamia is also called the
Great Garden
Bread Basket
Perfect Land
Fertile Crescent
