Mesopotamia Practice Test

Which 2 rivers surround Mesopotamia?

• Mississippi & Nile

• Tigris & Euphrates

• Tigris & Nile

• Euphrates & Mississippi

Which is a way of controlling the water?

• Migration

• Urbanization

• Globalization

• Irrigation

What could Mesopotamian society do with a surplus of food?

• Sell it

• trade it

• store it

• all of the above

Early writing in Mesopotamia was called...

• Epics

• Scribes

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphs

The first people to develop a civilization in Mesopotamia were the...

• A. Akkadians

• B. Babylonians

• C. Egyptians

• D. Sumerians

Which of the following statements about the first writing system are false?

• It was developed by the Babylonians

• It was recorded on tablets made of clay

• It began with the use of pictures to represent objects

• It was first used to track information

In Sumerian society, people's social hierarchy, or class, depended on their wealth and their...

• A. Appearance

• B. Religion

• C. Location

• D. Occupation

Which of the following was the subject of the great Sumerian epic?

• Ziggurat

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• Babylon

Hammurabi’s best known for his...

• Code of Laws

• Code of Silence

• Invention of the Wheel

• Invention of the Plow

The region known as Mesopotamia is indicated on the map by which letter?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z