This quiz will help you review for our Unit 8 Ancient Mesopotamia test!
Government
Social classes
Monumental architecture
Stable food supply
Stable food supply
Trade
Monumental architecture
Social classes
Trade
Government
System of writing
Social classes
System of writing
Monumental architecture
Government
Stable food supply
Irrigation...empire
Empire...irrigation
City-state...empire
Empire....city-state
Sumerians
Persians
Assyrians
Babylonians
Akkadian Empire
Assyrian Empire
Babylonian Empire
Persian Empire
Akkadian Empire
Assyian Empire
Babylonian Empire
Persian Empire
Sumerians
Assyrians
Persians
Because there were no rivers in Mesopotamia.
Because the land there was fertile.
Because they were nomads and had to keep moving.
Because they formed the first empire.
If a man breaks the bone of a man of his own social class, his bone shall be broken.
Do not make any statues or carved images of any gods.
If a man breaks the bone of a poor man, he shall pay him 3 month's wages in silver.
If you are caught stealing from a house or a temple, you shall be put to death.
Jewish or Hebrew kings
Sumerian Kings
Egyptian kings
Assyrian Kings
They developed irrigation systems.
They passed their land from father to son.
They lived in the hills.
They developed new types of crops.
Records about the economy
Sets of laws
Religious rules
Ways to spread monotheism
Belonged to a polytheistic religion.
Belonged to the Persian Empire.
Belonged to a monotheistic religion.
Belonged to the Assyrian Empire.
The Alphabet
The Code of Hammurabi
Hieroglyphs
Cuneiform
The Jews believed in many gods.
The Jews had no written text.
The Jews prayed indoors.
The Jews were monotheistic.
Moses receiving the Code of Hammurabi
Abraham receiving the Ten Commandments
Hammurabi receiving the Code of Hammurabi
Moses receiving the Ten Commandments