Mr. Dowling's Interactive Mesopotamia Quiz

Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means
1. lands of great pottery.
2. fertile crescent.
3. the Gift of the Nile.
4. between the rivers.
5. abundant natural resources.
Which statement about the Fertile Crescent is false?
1. The Fertile Crescent stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
2. The Fertile Crescent is a rich food growing area.
3. The Fertile Crescent no longer exists.
4. The Fertile Crescent is shaped like a quarter moon.
Parts of Mesopotamia have also been known as
1. Sumeria
2. Babylonia
3. Assyria
4. Iraq
5. all of the above
The Tigris and Euphrates are (or were)
1. city-states.
2. mountains.
3. rivers
4. dictators
5. gods.
Polytheism refers to
1. a land with many city-states.
2. land controlled by many civilizations of a long period of time.
3. the belief in many gods.
4. a fertile land with many rivers.
5. none of the above.
This term is not generally accepted as a definition of BC or BCE.
1. Beginning Centuries
2. Before the Christian Era
3. Before the Common Era
4. Before Christ
We live in this century.
1. eighteenth
2. nineteenth
3. twentieth
4. twenty-first
5. first
Ancient Sumerian writing was known as
1. pinyin
2. hieroglyphics
3. phonemes
4. italics
5. cuneiform
Which statement about Hammurabi is true?
1. Hammurabi was a Babylonian king.
2. Hammurabi placed his code of laws in a public place for everyone to see.
3. Some of Hammurabi’s Code is based on the principle, “An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth.”
4. all of the other statements are true.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was an ancient
1. city state.
2. god.
3. king.
4. language.
5. poem.
This was not a factor in the Assyrian’s defeat of Babylon.
1. The Assyrians dammed the rivers leading into Babylon.
2. Assyrians warriors used chariots in order to attack quickly.
3. The Assyrians used battering rams to break down city walls.
4. The Assyrians were well read and knew about other peoples and cultures.
5. The Assyrians had a powerful army equipped with iron weapons.
This is a period of ten years.
1. century
2. decade
3. millennium
4. eon
This is a period of one hundred years.
1. century
2. decade
3. millennium
4. eon
This is a period of one thousand years.
1. century
2. decade
3. millennium
4. eon
In a pictographic writing system, each symbol represents a _____.
1. word
2. sound
In a phoenetic writing system, each symbol represents a _____.
1. word
2. sound
Which is an example of a pictographic writing system?
1. Sumerian cuneiform
2. Chinese pinyin
3. modern English
4. modern Spanish
5. modern French
Modern English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian are examples of _________ writing systems, where symbols called an alphabet are used to represent sounds.
1. phoenetic
2. pictographic
Which is an example of a phoenetic symbol?
Most of the people of the Western Hemisphere are polytheistic.
1. True
2. False
Almost every large city is located near water.
1. True
2. False
The twenty-six letters of the Latin alphabet are ___ symbols.
1. phoenetic
2. pictographic

Mr. Dowling's Interactive Mesopotamia Quiz

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