Mesopotamia

Question 1

What two rivers are surrounding Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

Tigris and Euphrates

Question 2

What continent Mesopotamia is located

Answer 2

Asia

Question 3

Southern region of Mesopotamia

Answer 3

Sumer

Question 4

Used to write down what is said in court

Answer 4

Scribe

Question 5

Decides what happens to people

Answer 5

Judge

Question 6

used as envelopes to seal laws

Answer 6

Clay

Question 7

used to make houses

Answer 7

bricks

Question 8

writing based on pictures

Answer 8

cuneiform

Question 9

a temple with a tower

Answer 9

Ziggurat

Question 10

a conqerer of Sumerians

Answer 10

Hammurabi

Question 11

a city and its formland

Answer 11

City states

Question 12

how many city states are there

Answer 12

12

Question 13

someone who trades, second social class

Answer 13

merchant

Question 14

someone of high social standing

Answer 14

noble

Question 15

apart of the lowest social class

Answer 15

slaves

Question 16

country Mesopotamia is today

Answer 16

iraq

Question 17

the leading city of ancient mesopotamia, means the gate of the gods

Answer 17

babylon

Question 18

how many social classes are there

Answer 18

3

Question 19

studies planets and stars

Answer 19

astronomers

Question 20

invention used to prepare their fields for planting

Answer 20

plow

Question 21

invention used to supports heavy walls over doorways and windows

Answer 21

arch

Question 22

another invention

Answer 22

wheel

Question 23

who lived in ancient mesopotamia, first people to write down laws

Answer 23

sumerians

Question 24

the worship of many gods

Answer 24

polythiesm

Question 25

worshiped many

Answer 25

gods

Question 26

what social class were preists in

Answer 26

first

Question 27

what did preists do

Answer 27

managed the gods land, directed worship, and governed the city

Question 28

was located in the middle of every city

Answer 28

temples

Question 29

they thought after they died they would go to___ and sit quietly in a dark cave filled with dust and clay

Answer 29

netherworld

Question 30

run by preists and set up in temples

Answer 30

schools

Question 31

only ___ received an education

Answer 31

upper class boys

Question 32

what would happen to a doctor who let a patient die in surgery

Answer 32

hand gets cut off

Question 33

___ different symbols in the cuneiform writing

Answer 33

600

Question 34

____ were made when people got married, bought or sold something, etc.

Answer 34

contracts

Question 35

it is illegal to tax

Answer 35

orphans

Question 36

individual city states sometimes ___ against each other

Answer 36

fought wars

Question 37

the sumerians feared their gods because they believed that the gods had the power to destroy their cities with

Answer 37

floods

Question 38

because plenty of ___ was being produced, many people were able to work as traders and artisans

Answer 38

food

Question 39

the sumerians wrote on clay because they did not know how to make

Answer 39

paper

Question 40

most people of sumer were

Answer 40

farmers

Question 41

the sumerians divided a ___ into 360 degrees

Answer 41

circle

Question 42

the hanging gardens were called one of the___

Answer 42

seven wonders of the world

Question 43

a set of laws which all people had to obey

Answer 43

code of hammurabi