Early Checkpoint

What is History?

• It is the study to understand what we are toda

• It is a study of past which helps us to understand the present.

• It is the study of what people did and said in the past.

• It is the study of the past, particularly people and events of the past.9

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers. Name the two rivers.

• Nile & Euphrates

• Tigris & Egyptian

• Tigris & Euphrates

• Nile & Amazon

A historian is a person who

• writes history

• studies history

• reads history

• records history

All of the following are the importance of studying history EXCEPT

• A. It tells us the about the important events in the past

• B. It helps us to understand deeply our culture and origin.

• C. It makes us better person in the present.

• D. It imparts the skills of inquiry , reasoning and interpretation.

Who is featured here atop the stele of laws that they enacted?

• Nebuchanezzer and Gilgmesh

• Hammurabi and Shamash

• Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs.

• Snoop & Dre

Which geographical factor had a major influence on the development of both Egyptian and Babylonian civilizations?

• River valleys

• Access to mountains

• Locations near straits

• Cool temperatures

What was the main religion of the Mesopotamians?

• Monotheism

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Polytheism

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is also known as

• cuneiform

• irrigation

• fishing

• architecture

The Sumerian writing system was called

• stele

• cuneiform

• ziggurat

• heiroglyphs

Who held the highest levels of Mesopotamian society?

• Scribes

• artists

• priests and rulers

• wealthy merchants