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Archaeology and Mesopotamia:

Quiz Created By: Shaheer Naeem




  1. What years did the 16th century include?



    A) 0-1600 BCE
    B) 100-1699 BCE
    C) 0-1599 BCE
    D) 1000-1600 BCE



  2. Who developed the Cuneiform?



    A) Babylon
    B) Akkad
    C) Sumer
    D) Assyria



  3. Which city’s king was King Hammurabi?



    A) Babylon
    B) Akkad
    C) Sumer
    D) Assyria



  4. Why was King Hammurabi significant?



    A) Had 74 people die with him.
    B) Made men superior than women.
    C) Came up with the irrigation system.
    D) Directed the first written law code.



  5. What were levees?



    A) Gates to stop water from filling in an area.
    B) Another name for levers to fill water from the well.
    C) Fertile embankments that could allow for easy planting.
    D) Mountainous areas that were bad for agriculture.



  6. What were the Dead Sea Scrolls?



    A) The Torah
    B) The Quran
    C) Assyrian Law Code.
    D) Random Babylonian book.



  7. Which civilization tells a story that parallels the one about Noah’s Ark?



    A) Babylon
    B) Akkad
    C) Sumer
    D) Assyria



  8. What were Ziggurats?



    A) The King’s palace.
    B) A merchant’s home.
    C) A Babylonian hospital.
    D) A temple where the God lived.



  9. Why was Mesopotamia, “The Cradle of Civilization”?



    A) They were the earliest of all civilizations.
    B) Its where Iraq is.
    C) It’s the land between the rivers.
    D) The first laws were developed here.



  10. For which civilization was the leader, Sargon the Great?



    A) Babylon
    B) Akkad
    C) Sumer
    D) Assyria