Mesopotamia Pre-Assessment

Name (First & Last) and Class Period

What does the word "civilization" mean to you?

What are some advantages to living near fresh water, especially rivers?

• Water for human use: drinking, cooking, cleaning

• Water for crops and livestock

• Fish for food

• All of the above

What does irrigation mean?

• When something is annoying, or uncomfortable
• When you get rid of something
• Bringing water from one place to another, usually for farming
• Removing water from an area so you can build there
• I don't know

Where was Mesopotamia (mostly) located?

• Modern-Day Turkey
• Modern-Day Pakistan
• Modern-day Iraq
• Modern-Day Brazil
• I don't know

What does "Mesopotamia" mean?

• Land between two rivers
• Land by the sea
• Land by the mountains
• Land between the oceans
• I don't know

What is a ziggurat and what was its purpose?

Which of these is not associated with the Mesopotamians?

• Invention of the wheel
• Invention of gunpowder
• First set of codified laws
• First area to have cultivated agriculture
• I don't know

What type of "writing" was used in Mesopotamia?

• Caligraphy
• Heiroglyphics
• Runes
• Cuneiform
• Option 5

Religion is Mesopotamia is best described as :

• Monotheistic
• Atheist
• Polytheistic
• Nontheistic
• I don't know