Mesopotamia Quiz

All of these are needed for a civilization, except _____

• Agriculture
• Technology
• Language
• Spaceships

Mesopotamia means _________

• Land of the Rising Sun
• Land of the Midnight Sun
• Land between two rivers
• Land of the Long White Cloud

The two rivers of Mesopotamia are ______

• Nile and Amazon
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Ganges and Brahmaputra
• Mississippi and Missouri

This was the writing form of the ancient Sumerians

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphics
• Alphabet
• Pictographs

How many city states made up ancient Mesopotamia

• 12
• 20
• 30
• 50

This Babylonian king was known for his set of laws

• King Tutankhamun
• King Cyrus
• King Hammurabi
• King Nebuchadnezzar

What Babylonian myth is often regarded as the worlds first recorded story

• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Odyssey
• Beowulf
• The Iliad

This Mesopotamian group had the largest empire and was known for their brutality

• The Akkadians
• The Sumerians
• The Assyrians
• The Babylonians

All of these were Mesopotamian inventions except...

• The wheel
• Writing
• Agriculture
• The internet

The chariot and this metal, helped Assyria build its huge empire

• Gold
• Iron
• Copper
• Silver