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Quiz on Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Chaldeans.
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Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?
Chaldeans
Babylonians
Hittites
Sumerians
2
The Assyrian army numbered _____ soldiers, including infantry, cavalry and charioteers.
25,000
10,000
50,000
75,000
3
Sargon conquered all of the people of Mesopotamia, creating the worlds first
Civilization
Empire
Ziggurat
City/State
4
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at top
palace
scribe
ziggurat
synagogue
5
First large army to use iron weapons
Chaldeans
Assyrians
Babylonians
Sumerians
6
Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group
middle class
upper class
business class
lower class
7
Site of one of the world's first libraries
Sumer
Nineveh
Babylon
Gilgamesh
8
During the summer in Mesopotamia
melting snow led to flooding
snow sometimes fell
high humidity kept people indoors
water was scarce
9
Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?
Nebuchadnezzar
Gilgamesh
Nineveh
Hammurabi
10
T/F Sumerians were skilled metalworkers because of the abundance of metal in Sumer.
False
True
11
Fertile Crescent includes parts of modern countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel,
and Afghanistan
and Egypt
and Jordan
and India
12
People who study the heavenly bodies
astronaut
ziggurat
scribe
astronomers
13
What were some roles of the women in Sumer?
Getting a job
Voting on government leaders
Farming and hunting
Running the home and teaching daughters
14
A hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds
Gilgamesh
Chaldeans
Nineveh
Assyrians
15
The first Sumerian kings were probably
farmers
artisans
war heroes
scribes
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T/F Sumerians went to war with one another to increase trade
False
True
