The Rosetta Stone
Government
Religion
History
Babylon & Assyria
100
The Rosetta Stone is in how many languages?
Three
100
This type of city has its own government and is not part of any larger unit.
What is a city-state?
100
This big story from Sumer is about a hero who travels the world.
What is Epic of Gilgamesh?
100
The area where Sumerian society began is called the _________ crescent.
Fertile
100
The first library was in this city.
What is Nineveh?
200
The Rosetta Stone was originally found in what country?
Egypt, by a French soldier
200
This person wrote a legal code that covered most aspects of daily life.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
True or false: Priests were important in Sumerian society.
True
200
Sumerians developed this to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
200
This civilization began using iron weapons.
Assyrians
300
True or false: The Rosetta Stone still exists today.
True
300
Someone who makes things out of raw materials is called a(n):
Artisan
300
Sumerians were: a) monotheistic b) polytheistic
Polytheistic, meaning they had multiple gods
300
The lowest class in Sumer were: A) Women B) Children C) Slaves 4) Priests
C) Slaves
300
This city was famous for its Hanging Gardens.
What is Babylon?
400
Which type of script is NOT on the Rosetta Stone? : hieroglyphic, Greek, French, demotic
French script is NOT on the Rosetta Stone.
400
What is NOT considered an important part of a civilization? - writing - culture - a central leader like an emperor - government
Civilizations do not need to have a central leader.
400
A Sumerian pyramid-shaped temple was called a:
Ziggurat
400
Sumerians invented this.
What is cuneiform writing?
400
Babylon became rich from trade because it was between two bodies of water: the Persian Gulf and
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
What is the Rosetta Stone mostly about?
The good works of a Pharoah.
500
The few Sumerians who learned to write often held high positions in society as what?
Scribes
500
The calendar developed by Sumerians was based on: A) the number ten b) The number sixty c) The wheel d) the moon
D, the moon. They also invented the sixty-minute hour and the sixty-second minute.
500
The first Sumerian kings were probably:
War heroes
500
Who captured Babylon after Nebuchadnezzar died?
Who are the Persians?
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