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Who was Hammurabi?
a) King of Babylonian Empire
b) King of Assyrian Empire
c) A main god of Mesopotamia
d) The inventor of writing

What is Hammurabi best know for doing?
a) inventing the battering ram
b) creating a code of laws
c) defeating the Persians
d) being a skilled warrior

How were records kept before writing was invented?
a) on a disk drive
b) with tally marks
c) written records
d) clay tokens

About when was writing first developed?
a) 3100 AD/CE
b) 1787 BC/BCE
c) 3100 BC/BCE
d) 539 BC/BCE

Why was writing needed?
a) to keep records
b) to remember song lyrics
c) to practice cursive
d) to please the gods

What material did scribes write on?
a) papyrus
b) clay
c) mud brick
d) concrete

What were Assyrians very good at being?
a) skilled craftsman
b) skilled artisans
c) skilled writers
d) skilled warriors

What did the Assyrians invent to help them in battle?
a) machine guns
b) hand grenades
c) battering rams
d) bow and arrows

Who was Nebuchcadnezzar II?
a) King of the Persian Empire
b) King of Sumer
c) King of the New Babylonian Empre
d) King of Ninevah

Which empire was the only group at the time to worship one god?
a) Persians
b) Assyrians
c) Babylonians
d) Sumerians

Why were scribes imporant people in Sumer?
a) they had large amounts of land
b) they negotiated treaties
c) they refused to teach reading
d) they kept records for the king

What attracted people to the Fertile Crescent?
a) convenient navigation
b) cool temperatures
c) rich soil
d) religious temples

Sumerian city-states shared language and culture, how were they independent?
a) different architecture
b) no travel between city-states
c) each had its own government
d) no trade with each other

What was the main cause of wars between the Sumerian city-states?
a) disputes over land and water
b) religious disagreements
c) exhausted armies
d) theft of livestock

A Sumerian ziggurat was made of terraces becuase...
a) it was architecturally unstable
b) multiple crop growth
c) Sumerian society had social classes
d) it was gods' stairway

A city with its own traditions, government, and laws is
a) state-city
b) city-state
c) empire
d) country

A belief in many gods is called...
a) caravan
b) polytheism
c) myth
d) monotheism

In Mesopotamia, people combined symbols into a script known as...
a) cuneiform
b) myth
c) code
d) alphabet

A person who writes for a living is a
a) priest
b) scribe
c) myth
d) king

Many territories and people controlled by one governement is a/an
a) city-state
b) country
c) empire
d) ziggurat

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