Mesopotamia

Question 1

Describe three things Mesopotamians used their rivers for

Answer 1

Drinking water, Irrigation, and transportation.

Question 2

Were they atheistic, monotheistic, or polytheistic?

Answer 2

Polytheistic

Question 3

What did they think the gods were like?

Answer 3

They thought that if they worshiped them then they would have good luck

Question 4

Describe what a Ziggurat was, and what it was used for

Answer 4

Describe what a Ziggurat was, and what it was used for

Question 5

Describe what Sumerian writing was called, what material it was written on

Answer 5

It was called cuneiform, and they wrote it on tablets

Question 6

Identify the number that Sumerian math was based on

Answer 6

0-60

Question 7

Name the earliest form of Sumerian art

Answer 7

Sumer

Question 8

Name two inventions Mesopotamians created to make farming easier and more efficient

Answer 8

Plow and Wheel

Question 9

Describe how Phoenicians influenced language

Answer 9

They used many different languages

Question 10

Describe the basics of Hammurabi’s Code

Answer 10

The rules were unfair

Question 11

Who was Hammurabi?

Answer 11

A king, and the creator of Hammurabi’s code

Question 12

How did the Code treat different social classes?

Answer 12

If you were rich they treated you well. If you were poor then the rules would be torture

Question 13

Name the main economic activity of Mesopotamia

Answer 13

Agriculture

Question 14

Name an invention Mesopotamians created to improve record keeping with businesses

Answer 14

Clay tablets

Question 15

Identify the first trading empire in Mesopotamia

Answer 15

Akkadian

Question 16

Identify the five social groups in Sumer

Answer 16

Ruling class, upper class, middle class, working-class, and enslaved class.

Question 17

Be able to order the social groups by power/wealth

Answer 17

Ruling class, upper class, middle class, working-class, and enslaved class.

Question 18

Be able to tell us which social group was largest in size

Answer 18

Sumerians

Question 19

Describe why priests were important

Answer 19

They said prayers and worshiped god

Question 20

Identify two things all Sumerians had in common

Answer 20

Language, and the belief of 1 god