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Unit Name: Mesopotamia

Quiz Created By: Jovine Chan




  1. What does AD (anno domini) mean in English?



    A) In the Year of Our King
    B) In the Year of Our Fathers
    C) In the Year of Our Lord
    D) In the Year of Our Land



  2. Who were the people who thought of storing food for the winter?



    A) Cro-Magnons
    B) Paleolithic people
    C) Homo Sapiens
    D) Sumerians



  3. What revolution followed after the Neolithic Revolution?



    A) Urban Revolution
    B) The West Revolution
    C) Monarchy Revolution
    D) There wasn’t another revolution after that



  4. Which civilization was the first to develop writing and large social organizations?



    A) Sumerians
    B) Akkadians
    C) Ancient Egypt
    D) Babylon



  5. Which civilization reunited Mesopotamia?



    A) Babylonians
    B) Sumerians
    C) Akkadians
    D) It didn’t reunite but instead was conquered entirely by the Assyrians



  6. Who was the Persian leader?



    A) Alexander the Great
    B) Cyrus the Great
    C) King Ishtar
    D) Shamash the Great



  7. Cuneiform means…



    A) to write on stone
    B) the words of the people
    C) wedge-shaped
    D) to be civilized



  8. Which one of these civilizations weren’t part of the Ancient Near East?



    A) Uruk
    B) Iran
    C) Akkad
    D) Uchi



  9. The Qur’an was made by…



    A) King Hammurabi
    B) Muhammad
    C) Enki
    D) Shamash



  10. Why were people attracted to settle down in Mesopotamia?



    A) There was rainfall, which is good for the crops
    B) The soil contained lots of minerals
    C) There were levees along the Euphrates River
    D) Because the Tigris and Euphrates river provided lots of water for crops