6th Grade Ch. 2 Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia was located along land between 

• the Nile and Euphrates Rivers.  
• the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.  
• the Red Sea and the Tigris River.  
• the Nile and Tigris Rivers.  

Separate city-states developed in Sumer because the cities were

• separated by long distances.  
• united under one government.  
• destroyed by Ur. 
• often destroyed by floods.  

Babylon was a crossroads of trade because of its location 

• near irrigation canals.  
• on the Mediterranean Sea.  
• on the Nile River.  
• between cities to the south and north.  

In 612 B.C., the Assyrians were conquered by 

• the Babylonians and the Chaldeans.  
• the Israelites and the Medes.  
• the Medes and the Chaldeans.  
• the Medes and the Sumerians.  

Which of the following was the first written set of laws?  

• the Epic of Gilgamesh
• the Ziggurat of Ur
• Hammurabi's Code
• the Ten Commandments

Where did writing first develop?  

• Assyria
• Mesopotamia
• Phoenicia
• Canaan

One important advantage of the Phoenician alphabet was 

• it was only used by the scribes.  
• all the people learned to read and write the symbols.  
• it used only 100 symbols.  
• it was simpler than cuneiform.  

The Phoenicians helped spread civilization throughout the Mediterranean area by 

• using ships to trade goods with other peoples.  
• telling tales of monsters that lived in the ocean.  
• conquering all the lands west of the Persian Gulf.  
• controlling the supply of a valuable purple dye.  

What did the Babylonians and Israelites have in common?

• The both looked for a trade route to the New World.

• They both conquered the Phoenicians.

• They both lived according to a code of laws.

• The both destroyed the city of Tyre.

Symbols for writing that represent sounds are called a(n) 

• alphabet.
• cuneiform.  
• covenant.  
• famine.