ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

What does the word Mesopotamia means in Greek language?

• First civilization

• Land between rives

• Xerxes rules

• New stone age

The religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps

• Empire

• Building

• Ziggurat

• Pyramid

What are the Sumerians famous for?

• Fighting with the Greeks

• Forming the first human civilization

• Conquering Ancient Egypt

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Which of the following is considered an important invention by the Sumerians?

• Writing

• Government

• Irrigation

• Wheeled vehicles

• All of the above

What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?

• Gods worshiped by the Sumerians

• The two most famous Kings of the Sumer

• Major cities located in Mesopotamia

• Major rivers that flowed through Mesopotamia

• Deserts located to each side of where the Sumer originally settled

How was the number 60 important to the Sumerians?

• It was the number of gods they worshiped

• It was the base number for their mathematics and numbering system

• They considered the number 60 unlucky and never used it

• They had 60 letters in their alphabet

What peoples came before the Akkadians in the land of Mesopotamia?

• Babylonians

• Sumerians

• Persians

• Greeks

What Akkadian leader rose to power and first united Mesopotamia under one rule?

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• Xerxes

• Sargon the Great

Sargon introduced the concept of the dynasty to an empire. What was this?

• When a king would assign leaders to rule each city who reported in to him

• When the son of a king inherited his kingdom and became king when he died

• Another name for the civil service or administrators who worked for the government

• All of the above

What language did the Akkadians speak?

• Sumerian

• Assyrian

• Akkadian

• Arabic