ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA EXAM

Read each question carefully, THINK, and choose the best answer.1. The “Land Between Two Rivers” and the “Fertile Crescent” refer to Mesopotamia Arabian Peninsula Persia Jordan 2. These two rivers flow through the Fertile Crescent: Nile and Euphrates Tigris and Tiber Nile and Tiber Tigris and Euphrates 3. The people of the Fertile Crescent dug canals from the rivers to bring water to their farmlands. This process is called _. Drought Irrigation Diffusion Invasion 4. Most of Fertile Crescent lies in the countries of (????) today. Turkey Israel Saudi Arabia Iraq 6. The Sumerians built high walls around their cities for the purpose of: beauty pleasing the gods protection from invaders to hold back flood waters 8. The Sumerians were (???), they believed in many gods. monotheistic polytheistic pretheistic antitheistic 9. The Sumerians built huge temples in the center of the city. These temples were made of terraces, one on top of the others. These temples were called: churches mosques synagogues ziggurats 11. The Sumerian form of writing is called: hieroglyphics pictographs cuneiform Latin 12. To write, the Sumerians used a (???) stick to make marks in wet clay. round-shaped wedge-shaped flat square-shaped 14. The city-states of Sumer often battled each other over: the use of the land and water trade routes the use of clay religious differences 15. Weakened from battling each other, the Sumerians were conquered by the (???). Hittites Babylonians Assyrians Persians Match the picture to the term that names it. 16. Ziggurat 17. Cuneiform 18. Irrigation 19. Scribe 20. Dike Use the map of ancient Mesopotamia to answer the following questions:21. Which RIVER did the city-state of Nineveh border? Euphrates Tigris Nile Zargos 22. Into which body of water did the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty? Mediterranean Sea Red Sea Black Sea Persian Gulf 23. Which is NOT as city-state located in Mesopotamia? Babylon Eridu Iran Umma 24. If you were traveling from PHOENICIA to ASSYRIA, what direction would you travel? Northeast Northwest Southeast Southwest 25. What body of water is at the WESTERN edge of the Fertile Crescent? Tyre Mediterranean Sea Red Sea Persian Gulf Where was the Ziggurat located in every city? Edge of the city City center Northern part of the city The location did not matter Which of the following geographic factors has the greatest influence on where people live? shared cultural traditions proximity to highways and roads availability of water access to public transportation What is my last name? What sport does my son play?