2.Ancient Mesopotamia

Question 1

What does Mesopotamia mean?

Answer 1

The land between two rivers.

Question 2

What are the names of the two rivers?

Answer 2

The Tigris and Euphrates.

Question 3

Why were the rivers so important?

Answer 3

Farming and training

Question 4

What language did the people of Sumer speak?

Answer 4

Sumerian

Question 5

What language did the people speak during the Akkad rule?

Answer 5

Akkadian

Question 6

What was the Sumerian writing system called and what does the term mean?

Answer 6

Cuneiform, means wedged shape.

Question 7

What did the Sumerians write on?

Answer 7

Clay tablets.

Question 8

What was the Sumerian place of worship?

Answer 8

Ziggurat

Question 9

Name 5 things the Sumerians invented?

Answer 9

Writing 
Wheel
Lunar calendar 
Irrigation 
Time based on 60

Question 10

List in order civilizations and ruling empires of Ancient Mesopotamia

Answer 10

Ubaid
Sumerians
Akkadians
Old Babylonians
Hittites
Assyrians
New Babylonians
Persians

Question 11

Who created the first written laws?

Answer 11

Hammurabi, the king of Babylon.

Question 12

Who build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Answer 12

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 13

Drought

Answer 13

A long period of dry weather.

Question 14

Famine

Answer 14

A wide spread lack of food resulting in hunger and starvation.

Question 15

Fertile Crescent

Answer 15

A crescent shaped region with fertile soil, in the Middle East.

Question 16

City state

Answer 16

A self governing city.

Question 17

Ziggurat

Answer 17

A large temple built by the Sumerians to honor their gods and goddesses.

Question 18

Irrigation

Answer 18

The process of making sure crops have the water they need to grow.

Question 19

Scribe

Answer 19

A person trained to be able to write, worked to record important information.

Question 20

Empire

Answer 20

Different groups of people living in one large area of land under one ruler.

Question 21

Monotheism

Answer 21

Believing in only one god.

Question 22

Polytheism

Answer 22

Believing in more than one god.

Question 23

Bronze

Answer 23

A strong metal made from copper and tin that was used for making tools.

Question 24

Gilgamesh

Answer 24

A Sumerian king of the city state of Uruk. He later became known in mythology as a demigod with superhuman strength.

Question 25

Social class

Answer 25

Groups of people with different levels of importance.