Mesopotamia

The plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called _____________.

• Egypt
• Indus Valley
• Mesopotamia
• Nile Valley

In Sumer, city-states were self-governing. What does self-governing mean?

• It means that the city-states were governed by an external power
• It means that the city-states were governed by a single ruler
• It means that the city-states were governed by a council of elders
• It means that the city-states were governed by their own inhabitants

Sumer had only two social classes: the upper class and the middle class.

• True
• False
• Not enough information
• Irrelevant

The Sumerians invented a form of writing called ____________.

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Alphabet
• Pictographs

The Sumerians created an heroic poem called __________.

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

Who formed a code of laws that later influenced the laws of the Greeks and Romans?

• Alexander the Great
• Julius Caesar
• Hammurabi
• Napoleon Bonaparte

How did the Assyrians treat the people they conquered?

• They treated them with kindness and respect
• They allowed them to keep their own customs and traditions
• They forced them to adopt Assyrian customs and traditions
• They enslaved them and treated them harshly

The Assyrians used the writing and religion of the ___________.

• Egyptians
• Sumerians

• Romans
• Greeks

Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

• Alexander the Great
• Nebuchadnezzar II
• Julius Caesar
• Cleopatra

Babylon was an important trading city connecting Mesopotamia to ________

• India

• Rome
• Athens
• Beijing