Mesopotamia Practice Quiz

What do levees prevent?

• farming

• invasion by other civilizations

• flooding

• fires

What allowed Mesopotamians to have specialized labor?

• flooding

• government

• food surpluses

• hunting and gathering

What is cuneiform?

• writing in symbols on a clay tablet with a reed

• pictures drawn on paper

• an alphabet

• messages carved into cave walls

What did the Mesopotamians primarily use writing for?

• trading and laws

• letters to each other

• school

• books

Mesopotamians invented the _______________

• alphabet

• car

• wheel

• pyramids

Where did Mesopotamians worship their gods?

• chariot

• they didn't believe in gods

• in a field

• ziggurat

How were the governments of Mesopotamia divided?

• into parishes with priests

• into city-states with kings

• into countries with presidents

• there was no government

Gilgamesh was a _____________

• hero king in the oldest written story ever found

• monster in an epic story passed down over many years

• fictional character in a play performed by the Mesopotamians

• wealthy farmer in Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is located in the ______________, an area of land shaped like a moon and known to have soil good for farming.

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumer

• Kish

• Akkadian Empire

Mesopotamia's land included silt, which had many minerals and nutrients, as a result of __________.

• hurricanes

• tornadoes

• flooding

• earthquakes