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Mesopotamia - Sumer Babylonia Assyria
Mesopotamia - Sumer Babylonia Assyria
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1
Which civilization was especially good at siege warfare, using battering rams and siege towers?
Assyria
Akkad
Sumer
Babylonia
2
How did the civilizations of Mesopotamia supply water to drink and farm their land?
They traded with other civilizations like Egypt
They farmed on the beach and used ocean water
They used irrigation techniques to transport water
They developed cuneiform to help with water
3
Who was the king of Kish, a city state in the northern part of Mesopotamia?
Sargon
Euphrates
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
4
Which was the first major empire in Mesopotamia?
Akkadian
Sumerian
Assyrian
Babylonian
5
What part of the modern world best describes the location of Mesopotamia?
Asia
The Middle East
Europe
Africa
6
Name the Civilization: Which civilization was known for the first city state including Nippur?
Akkadia
Sumer
Babylonia
Assyria
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Which was the largest of the empires of Mesopotamia?
Babylonian
Akkadian
Sumerian
Assyrian
8
Which civilization was a "loose group of City States" along the Euphrates River?
Akkad
Babylonia
Sumer
Nineveh
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What is a city state?
A coastal city built around a larger state by the rivers
an independent kingdom made up of a city & surrounding land
A series of neolithic farms joined together
Several small tribes and villages joined together
10
Which Empire and Leader association is correct?
Sargon - Sumer
Nebuchadnezzar - Assyrian
Hammurabi - Akkadia
Hammurabi - Babylonian
11
Who conquered much of Mesopotamia several hundred years after the Akkadian Empire fell apart?
Nebuchadnezzar
Hammurabi
Tigris
Sargon
12
What is the name of the first type of writing and which civilization created it?
Rosetta Stone, Babylonia
Cunieform, Sumer
Cunieform, Assyria
Hieroglyhpics, Egypt
13
Ancient Mesopotamian societies built Ziggurats. Their form of worship is best described as.....
Christianity
City States
Monotheism
Polytheism
14
What were the names of the two major rivers that made farming possible in Mesopotamia?
Aegean and Nile
Euphrates and Tigris
Tigris and Nile
Aegean and Mediterannean