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Ancient Mesopotamia
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1) "land between two rivers"
A
Iraq
B
Mesopotamia
C
Nile River
D
Fertile Crescent
2) Into what body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow?
A
Caspian Sea
B
Mediterranean Sea
C
Persian Gulf
D
Red Sea
3) How were the people of the Fertile Crescent able to regulate the amount of water flowing into the canals?
A
filter water
B
use of ditches
C
use of gates
D
growing more crops
4) Which is NOT a parallel between early Mesopotamia and early Egypt?
A
harsh lands watered by rivers
B
developed methods to water land
C
surpluses and agriculture
D
located in western Asia
5) Why did cuneiform symbols grow less picture-like as time passed?
A
needed more letters in the alphabet
B
bored with the old writing
C
scribes simplified the symbols to write faster
D
a new King ordered them to
6) What role did the king’s palace play in a city-state?
A
place to worship gods
B
center of government
C
center of trade
D
where currency was made
7) What brought on the collapse of the Sumerian Empire?
A
attack by foreign invaders
B
laws were broken
C
rebellion against it by the city-states
D
natural disaster
8) What is NOT a MAJOR advantage to a society of having a written code?
A
write diary entries
B
all citizens new punishment for crime
C
keeping records
D
all citizens knew the laws
9) What is NOT an example of what made New Babylon magnificent?
A
sewer system
B
huge boats
C
gridded streets
D
100 foot ziggurat
10) How was the Hebrews’ religion different from those of their Fertile Crescent neighbors?
A
more followers
B
monotheistic
C
worshipped more
D
polytheistic
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