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Mesopotamia Practice Test
1.
List from your time line the first 12 civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia.
Sumer, Akkad, Neo-Sumer, Amorite (Babylonian), Hittite/Kassite, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, Greece,
Parthia, Rome
2. What two reasons explains why civilizations fought to control Mesopotamia?
a. center of trade routes
3. What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between Rivers
4. Name 7 of the most important cities of this first civilization known as Sumer.
Ur, Urek, Nippur, Lagash, Eridu, Kish, Umma
5.
Please name 3 kings from this first civilization.
a. Gudea
b. Bani-Enlil
c. Gilgamesh
ALL 4 are actually Sumerian. A,C are Neo-Sumerian. B,D are Sumerian.
d. Lugal-zuggesi
6. This first civilization wrote the world’s first what?
b. epic poem
7. What written language was the book written in?
cuneiform
8. What does the written language mean in English?
d. a and c are correct
9. Who translated this written language and the name of the stone he translated?
Sir Henry Rawlinson
10. Name 5 inventions created by this first civilization of Mesopotamia.
Writing, Math, Sailboat, Brick, Wheel, Arch, Plow…
11. What was the main reason why city-states of this first civilization constantly fought each other?
Limited Natural Resources – WATER in particular
12. What was the name of the temples of each of these civilizations?
c. ziggurat
13. Which civilization conquered Sumer and became the world’s first empire?
b. Akkad
14. What were the names of 2 kings of this first empire?
b. Sargon
d. Naram-Sin
15. What is an empire? What did this first empire possibly invent?
An empire is a nation and the other nations it has conquered. The Akkadians may have invented maps.
16. Why did this civilization and the ones that followed eventually fall?
Fought civil wars and were attacked by invaders.
17. Who was Gudea?
b. Possible Neo-Sumerian King
18. Why are the Amorites sometimes referred to as Babylonians?
Babylyon was the Amorite capitol city and center of their civilization.
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