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Mesopotamia Review
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Review of the main concepts, terms and people of Mesopotamia
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Which civilization is credited with developing the first seven-day calendar?
Akkadians
Chaldeans/Babylonians
Sumerians
Assyrians
2
Between what two rivers is the Fertile Crescent located?
Tigris and Euphrates
Indus and Nile
Indus and Euphrates
Nile and Mississippi
3
In what city were the Hanging Gardens built?
Babylon
Akkad
Sumeria
Jerusalem
4
Who created a system of 282 laws?
Nebuchanezzar
Hammurabi
Jesus
Sargon
5
Why is the Fertile Crescent important?
It is where the 7 wonders of the world are located.
It is where Christianity was started.
It is the location of the first civilizations
It is where people first learned to use stone tools.
6
Why were the Assyrians so strong?
They were able to write
They made iron weapons
They built a library
They invented the wheel
7
Why were early Sumerian city-states separated from each other?
they didn't have irrigation
they were not separated
the rivers got in the way
they were all surrounded by desert and difficult terrain
8
What branch of science was developed by the Babylonians to study changes in the sky?
geography
astronomy
biology
oceanography
9
Artisans were at what level of Sumerian society?
slaves
middle
upper
lower
10
A complex society with class divisions is called a
society
city-state
cuneiform
civilization
11
Civilizations began to develop because farming led to a
surplus of food
wheel
irrigation
artisan
12
What Akkadian king created the world's first empire?
Sargon
Nebuchadnezzar
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
13
Which ancient group is credited with inventing the wheel?
Sumerians
Akkadians
Babylonians
Assyrians
14
In the ancient world, political divisions between areas were called
empires
city-states
towns
states
15
A grand temple built to honor the gods is called a
cathedral
ziggurat
wall
shrine
16
People in Sumer who went to school to learn the job of writing things down were called
scribes
artisans
cuneiform
slaves
17
Why were Hammurabi's laws important?
They were the fairest at the time
They were the first to be written down
Neither 1 nor 3
Both 1 and 3
18
Where was Mesopotamia located?
near Asia
in the Fertile Crescent
none of these
along the banks of the Nile
19
In Sumer, the first form of writing was called
hieroglyphics
sanskrit
cuneiform
calligraphy
20
Which of the following was not an early Mesopotamian civilization?
Sumer
Persia
Assyria
Babylon
