Inventions
Farming
Empires
Life in Mesopotamia
Misc.
100
What were picture symbols used for written communication?
Pictographs
100
What is a way of supplying water to an area of land?
Irrigation
100
Like other Mesopotamian city-states, Sargon's empire ______________________ with other city-states for control of farmland.
fought
100
Why was Mesopotamia a good place for people to live?
I was located in the Fertile Crescent, which made it ideal for farming. There was rich farmland that created a surplus of food.
100
What technology did Assyrians and Hittites both use in battle?
Chariots and iron weapons
200
What was a wheeled, horse-drawn battle cart?
Chariot
200
Mesopotamian's built canals because they needed to __________________ the river's flow.
control
200
Hammurabi and Neuchadnezzar both built up the city of ____________________________.
Babylon
200
Give one example of how new inventions made life easier for the Sumerians.
The wheel made transportation easier. The plow made farming easier. Cuneiform made written communication easier. (record laws, gov't documents, etc.)
200
The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on its ________________________.
military strength
300
What is a form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols?
cuneiform
300
Which is an inference about why city-states fought each other for farmland? A. Each city-state owned crops that had been destroyed by natural causes. B. Each city-state had only one skill, which was farming. C. Each city-state wanted to build walls around its farms. D. Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow crops.
D. Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow crops.
300
_________________ was located near present-day Baghdad,Iraq.
Babylon
300
What is a division of society by rank or class?
Social Hierarchy
300
Mesopotamia means "land between the _____________" in Greek.
rivers
400
The relationship between trade and the Phoenician alphabet can best be described as the Phoenician alphabet __________________ along their trade routes.
spread
400
Sumerians believed that the ________________ could bring a good harvest or terrible flood.
gods
400
All of these ancient civilizations developed in Mesopotamia EXCEPT A. Sumerians B. Egyptians C. Babylonians D. Akkadians
B. Egyptians
400
Which sequence of events sows how Mesopotamia developed? A. People form divisions of labor. The population grew. Agriculture was the basis of the society. B. People built cities. People grew crops. People built canal. C. People made laws. People moved to villages and cities. People lived where crops could grow. D. People settled where crops could grow. The population grew. Villages and cities formed.
D. People settled where crops could grow. The population grew. Villages and cities formed.
400
Being a __________ in Sumer was a way to move up in social class.
scribe
500
Which of the following BEST describes Sumerian advances in medicine? A. Sumerians recorded their observations when practicing medicine. B. Sumerians used natural resources to make healing drugs. C. Sumerians became effective at treating different symptoms and parts of the body. D. Sumerian became skilled at using milk,figs,and salt in treating people.
C. Sumerians became effective at treating different symptoms and parts of the body.
500
Farmers and laborers make up the Sumerian _________________ class (middle, working)
working
500
What was the Phoenicians most important contributions to our society?
alphabet
500
People came to work as craftsmen in Mesopotamia because of A. cattle and sheep herding B. division of labor C. rules set up by the government D. flooding
B. division of labor
500
Sumerian city centers were dominated by _______________________. (What was often the center of the city?)
temple/ziggurat
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