Mesopotamia Chapter Review

Why did farmers rely on annual flooding?

• Flooding made it easier to travel upstream

• The floods left behind gold used for making money.

  
  

• The floods left behind silt that helped crops grow.

  
  

• Flooding made it easier to transport goods

How did irrigation impact civilizations in Mesopotamia?

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  Artisans developed new types of pottery.

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  Ranchers raised more livestock.

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  Farmers grew a surplus of crops.

• Priests performed more ceremonies.

Which group of people created a major empire following the Akkadians?

• Greeks

• Akkadians

• Babylonians

• Chaldeans

What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger?

• how to use stronger metals for weaponry

• how to fight while riding horses

• how to use more advanced weapons such as catapults and battering rams

• how to make chariots

Which group rebelled against the Assyrians?

• Hittites

• Chaldeans

• Babylonians

• Syrians

Nebuchadnezzar built the Hanging Gardens

• To please his wife

• As a military lookout

• To please the gods

• as a park for citizens to enjoy.

  
  

Who was Hammurabi?

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  a Sumerian emperor

• a Mesopotamian priest

• a Syrian prince

• a Babylonian king

Why is the Code of Hammurabi considered important?

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  It led to the expansion of Babylon.

• It inspired codes of law in other civilizations.

• It was the first code of laws ever made.

• It caused the collapse of Sumer.

Why did Nebuchadnezzar collect high taxes?

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  to support large-scale projects in Babylon

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  to increase the number of scribes in the empire

• to improve farming techniques in the countryside

• to pay off debts owed to other civilizations

Early Mesopotamians believed in _________________.

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  ancestor worship

• a single god

• many gods

• animal-worship