Chapter 3 Study Guide

Question 1

What did Mesopotamians make out of gold?

Answer 1

Jewelry and decorative items

Question 2

Who was the ancient Babylon King who created the earliest code of laws?

Answer 2

Hammurabi

Question 3

Which Mesopotamian invention had the greatest impact on travel and trade?

Answer 3

The wheel

Question 4

What is the name of the earliest piece of literature that still survives today?

Answer 4

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 5

Which statement describes the influence of Hammurabi’s code?

Answer 5

It provided a legal framework that many other countries used for theirs as well.

Question 6

Which quotation from Hammurabi’s code best demonstrates the principle of “an eye for an eye?”

Answer 6

“If a man puts out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.”

Question 7

Why did Hammurabi have copies of his code placed throughout important locations in Babylon?

Answer 7

For public awareness and so everyone knew the rules and laws

Question 8

How did calendars contribute to growth in cities in ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 8

They could predict floods, this made farming better and more crops. People could do other jobs.

Question 9

Which legal principle states that the same set of rules should apply equally to all citizens?

Answer 9

“Equality before the law”

Question 10

If a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out. If he has made the tooth of a poor man fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.

This is an example of the Babylonian’s belief that they should do what?

Answer 10

Acknowledge social class distances

Question 11

Which statement best explains why historians chose the name Mesopotamia for the region where Iraq and eastern Syria are now located?

Answer 11

The land between the rivers

Question 12

How did ancient Mesopotamians benefit from the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates river?

Answer 12

Fertile soil: more crops, irrigation and growth of cities

Question 13

What did ancient Mesopotamia have in common with other early civilizations?

Answer 13

A way to keep order with the people

Question 14

Which development made overland travel and trade easier in ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 14

The wheel. Then they could use wheeled carts and chariots

Question 15

Ancient Mesopotamia irrigation systems helped do which of the following?

Answer 15

Provide water for crops during times of droughts

Question 16

Which of these present-day countries is located where ancient Mesopotamia once existed?

Answer 16

Iraq

Question 17

The major cities of ancient Mesopotamia were located between …

Answer 17

along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Question 18

Ancient Mesopotamian traders had connections with traders in

Answer 18

India and Egypt

Question 19

Which goods would most likely have been transported by water in ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 19

Grains, timber

Question 20

The success of ancient Mesopotamia shows the importance of which of these factors for the development of civilization?

Answer 20

Food production

Question 21

Ancient mesopotamians believed the power of the king came from …

Answer 21

the gods

Question 22

Which statement best explains why it was uncommon for an ancient Mesopotamian woman to work as a scribe?

Answer 22

They usually didn’t learn to read or write.

Question 23

Which statement describes a reason why Mesopotamia was often a target of invasions from other civilizations?

Answer 23

They were a rich land. They had rivers and access to trade routes

Question 24

What was the function of the steps on the side of the ziggurat?

Answer 24

So gods could descend to earth

Question 25

What of these groups of people had the least amount of power in Mesopotamian society?

Answer 25

Farmers had the least. Enslaved had nothing.

Question 26

Which of these is the main feature of a patriarchal society?

Answer 26

Men have power in matters of government and family

Question 27

Which statement best applies to polytheism?

Answer 27

Belief in many gods

Question 28

The mesopotamian city-state of Sumer was located where?

Answer 28

Along the Euphrates river in the southwestern part of Mesopotamia.

Question 29

Which statement best describes slavery in ancient Mesopotamia?

Answer 29

They were enslaved because of debt, captured during war, or punishment for their crimes. They could be enslaved of one of several ways.

Question 30

Which statement best explains why Mesopotamian kings organized the construction of ziggurats?

Answer 30

Because they were very religious monuments and very important.