Ancient Mesopotamia Quiz

What is the system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams?

• City-state

• Silt

• Irrigation

• Surplus

What is the belief in more than one god called?

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

What is a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top called?

• Scribe

• Silt

• Irrigation

• Ziggurat

What is the system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay called?

• Silt

• Irrigation

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

What is a person who copies or writes out documents often a record keeper called?

• Scribe

• City-state

• Irrigation

• Surplus

Which city was the capital of Assyria?

• Ur

• Uruk

• Eridu

• Nineveh

Who was the ruler who developed the first empire by conquering all city-states and Mesopotamia?

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Nabopolassar

• Nebuchadnezzar

What was the law code created by Hammurabi for his empire called?

• The Code of Ur-Nammu

• The Law of the Medes and Persians

• The Twelve Tables

• The Code of Hammurabi

Which empire was the first to follow a 7-day week?

• Babylonian Empire

• Assyrian Empire

• Chaldean Empire

• Akkadian Empire

What was the capital of the Chaldean Empire?

• Ur

• Uruk

• Babylon

• Eridu