Sumer/Mesopotamia
6th grade Sumer/Mesopotamia
- 1.
What are two natural resources?
- A.
Water and clay
- B.
Clay and paper
- C.
Computers and chalk
- D.
Wood and paint
Correct Answer
A. Water and clay -
- 2.
What does Mesotpotamia mean?
- A.
Land of scarce water
- B.
Land of ancient civilization
- C.
Land between two rivers
- D.
Land between three rivers
Correct Answer
C. Land between two rivers -
- 3.
What is a Ziggurat?
- 4.
"An eye for an eye" was a law that people would follow from the ____________________________________.
Correct Answer
Code of Hammurabi - 5.
The Sumerian people made the first wheel.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 6.
Cuneiform was not the type of writing people used in Sumeria.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 7.
Why did people go to school?
- A.
To do chores
- B.
To build structures
- C.
To become a scribe
- D.
To learn the Code of Hammurabi
Correct Answer
C. To become a scribe -
- 8.
What is a surplus?
- A.
When you have enough water.
- B.
When you do not have enough food.
- C.
When you have just the right amount of food.
- D.
When you have more than enough food.
Correct Answer
D. When you have more than enough food. -
- 9.
The job of the priest was taken over by _______________.
Correct Answer
Military soldiers - 10.
When was early civilization?
- A.
10,000 B.C.
- B.
3000 B.C.
- C.
2,000,000 B.C.
- D.
5000 B.C.
Correct Answer
B. 3000 B.C. -
- 11.
A nomad is a person with no settled home.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 12.
What is silt?
- A.
It is a type of material you make clothes with.
- B.
It is fine dirt used for growing grain.
- C.
It is rocky dirt.
- D.
It is a type of metal.
Correct Answer
B. It is fine dirt used for growing grain. -
- 13.
What are the type empires?
- A.
Babylonian and Assyrias
- B.
Babylonians and Sumerians
- C.
Assyrias and Mesopotamians
- D.
Babylonians and Riverhead-ians
Correct Answer
A. Babylonian and Assyrias -
- 14.
Where is Mesopotamia located?
- A.
In America
- B.
In between the Peconic River and the Black Sea
- C.
In between the Red Sea and Black Sea
- D.
In the Middle East between the Tigres and Euaphraties Rivers.
Correct Answer
D. In the Middle East between the Tigres and Euaphraties Rivers. -
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