9) True or False
Mesopotamia is the Greek word meaning "the land between the rivers."
What is True
100
1) What is Hammurabi best known for?
What is a code of laws.
100
2) This is the wedge-shaped writing system developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform.
100
18) Name three Sumerian inventions.
What are the wheel, writing, sailboat, schools, calender, glass, pottery wheel, beer, pick ax, 60 based number system, literature, epic poetry, mud bricks, cloth loom, irrigation
100
6) What did Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make its army stronger?
What is how to make iron weapons.
200
3) Mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between what two rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
200
20) This Akkadian king created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon.
200
8) These Sumerians were skilled craftspeople who made products out of metal, cloth and pottery.
Who are artisans.
200
13) This is a method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops.
What is irrigation.
200
10) Why did King Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
What is he built them for his homesick wife.
300
16) Name the region that formed in southern Mesopotamia by 3,000 B.C.
What is Sumer
300
True or False
Hammurabi's laws always had fair punishments.
What is False
300
5) Sumerians built these temples to honor their gods.
What is a ziggurat.
300
7) Civilizations arose or happened in these places because of their good farmland.
What are river valleys.
300
True or False
Assyrians were considered to be brutal and cruel and would burn down cities and force people to move.
What is true
400
4) This is an independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.
What is a city-state.
400
Hammurabi's law code had this many laws.
What is 282.
400
11) These Sumerians held a high social position because of their ability to write and keep records.
Who are scribes.
400
This is a group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government.
What is an empire.
400
This city was a center for trade and science in Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon.
500
19) What six characteristics make up a civilization?
What are cities, religion, art, organized government, social classes, and a writing system.
500
How did Hammurabi choose his laws?
What is he gathered the best laws from different city-states.
500
17) Why did city-states often go to war with one another?
What is they fought for territory, water and for glory.
500
15) Why was writing important?
What is it was the first opportunity to record history, changed the way business and trade was conducted, allowed people to communicate.