Inventions
What writing system did the Sumerians invent?
A) Hieroglyphics
B) Cuneiform
C) Sanskrit
D) Alphabet
What is Cuneiform?
Who created the world’s first empire?
A) Hammurabi
B) Sargon of Akkad
C) Nebuchadnezzar II
D) Gilgamesh
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
Who wrote down laws on stone tablets?
A) Hammurabi
B) Gilgamesh
C) Sargon
D) Ashurbanipal
Who is Hammurabi?
What two rivers were most important to Mesopotamia?
A) Nile & Amazon
B) Tigris & Euphrates
C) Ganges & Indus
D) Jordan & Dead Sea
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
What is the word for a city and its land?
A) Colony
B) State
C) City-state
D) Town
What is a City-state?
What tool helped farmers plant seeds?
A) Wheel
B) Plow
C) Chariot
D) Shovel
What is the Plow?
Which empire was known for Hammurabi’s laws?
A) Babylon
B) Assyria
C) Akkad
D) Uruk
What is Babylon?
Who was the legendary king of Uruk?
A) Nebuchadnezzar
B) Hammurabi
C) Gilgamesh
D) Sargon
Who is Gilgamesh?
Why was Mesopotamia’s location between rivers both a blessing and a danger?
A) Rivers gave gold but no food
B) Rivers made farming easy but caused floods
C) Rivers kept enemies away but made travel hard
D) Rivers gave water but dried up every year
What is rivers made farming easy but caused floods?
What tall, stepped building was used as a temple?
A) Pyramid
B) Ziggurat
C) Castle
D) Shrine
What is a Ziggurat?
What invention helped bring water to fields?
A) Dams
B) Wells
C) Irrigation system
D) Rain barrels
What is an Irrigation system?
Which empire built the library at Nineveh?
A) Akkadians
B) Assyrians
C) Babylonians
D) Persians
Who are the Assyrians?
Who conquered Sumer to form an empire?
A) Hammurabi
B) Gilgamesh
C) Nebuchadnezzar II
D) Sargon
Who is Sargon?
What region was known as the “Fertile Crescent”?
A) Sahara Desert
B) Arc of rich farmland
C) Greek Peninsula
D) Great Wall of China
What is an Arc of rich farmland?
Which blue gate in Babylon had lions on it?
A) Ishtar Gate
B) Lion’s Gate
C) King’s Gate
D) Sun Gate
What is the Ishtar Gate?
Which ancient Mesopotamian invention helped people track the stars and understand the movement of celestial bodies?
A: Sundial
B: Star map
C: Abacus
D: Wheel
What is a Star map?
Which empire was ruled by Nebuchadnezzar II?
A) Akkadian
B) Assyrian
C) Neo-Babylonian
D) Sumerian
What is the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
Which Assyrian king built a great library?
A) Hammurabi
B) Ashurbanipal
C) Nebuchadnezzar
D) Sargon
Who is Ashurbanipal?
What body of water did the rivers flow into?
A) Red Sea
B) Mediterranean Sea
C) Persian Gulf
D) Black Sea
What is the Persian Gulf?
What do we call a written set of laws?
A) Rule book
B) Code
C) Scroll
D) Decree
What is a Law Code?
What system did Mesopotamians create that gave us the 60-minute hour and 360° circle?
A) Metric system
B) Decimal system
C) 60-based number system
D) Roman numerals
What is the 60-based number system?
Which empire stretched across Mesopotamia and beyond?
A) Sumerian
B) Assyrians
C) Babylonian
D) Persian
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Who built the Hanging Gardens?
A) Gilgamesh
B) Sargon
C) Nebuchadnezzar II
D) Hammurabi
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Why did Mesopotamians build canals and irrigation systems?
A) To protect from floods
B) To make farming possible
C) To stop enemies
D) To build roads
What is to make farming possible?
What Mesopotamian story is one of the oldest in the world?
A) Iliad
B)Beowulf
C) Epic of Gilgamesh
D) Odyssey
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?