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Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which of these leaders was a king of the Akkadians?
  1. Hammurabi
  2. Nebuchnezzar
  3. Sargon
  4. Gilgamesh
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which of the following was a reason for the fall of the four empires of Mesopotamia?
  1. Poorly trained soldiers.
  2. Weak or incompetent leaders
  3. Food shortages (Famine)
  4. Catastrophic floods
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What was the form of writing created and used by ancient Mesopotamians?
  1. Cuneiform
  2. Amoritian
  3. Assyrian
  4. None of the above
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
  1. The Fertile Crescent and the Mediterranean Sea
  2. The Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
  3. The northern plateau and the southern plateau
  4. The Tigris River and the Euphrates River
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
The world's first empire was the                  .
  1. Babylonian Empire
  2. Assyrian Empire
  3. Akkadian Empire
  4. Hittite Empire
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Who was the king of Babylon? ( He created                 Code)
  1. Nebuchadnezzar
  2. Caesar
  3. Hammurabi
  4. Byzantine
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Circa or c.a. means                       .
  1. Circle
  2. About or approximately
  3. Common Answer
  4. Came After
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What are the Sumerians famous for?
  1. Fighting with the Greeks
  2. Conquering Ancient Egypt
  3. Forming the first human civilization
  4. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  5. The library at Nineveh
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
In 612 B.C., who destroyed the Assyrians?
  1. Persians
  2. Babylonians
  3. Chaldeans (Neo-Babylonians)
  4. Akkadians
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Who destroyed the Assyrian Empire?
  1. Persians
  2. Babylonians
  3. Neo-Babylonians
  4. Sumerians
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which is an inference about why city-states fought each other for farmland?
  1. Each city-state owned crops that had been destroyed by natural causes.
  2. Each city-state had only one skill, which was farming.
  3. Each city-state wanted to build walls around its farm.
  4. Each city-state wanted to have enough farmland to grow food.
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What types of weapons did the Assyrians use?
  1. Iron
  2. Bronze
  3. Copper
  4. Wooden
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What was Babylonia's culture based on?
  1. monotheism
  2. Sumer
  3. Summer
  4. cuneiform
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which of the following is NOT one of the Mesopotamian Civilizations or Empires?
  1. Sumerians
  2. Chaldeans
  3. Babylonians
  4. Athenians
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which two land features gave Mesopotamia its name?
  1. the Fertile Crescent and the Mediterranean Sea.
  2. the Tigris River and the Euphrates River
  3. the northern plateau and the southern plateau
  4. The Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
Grade 6 Mesopotamia

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The Sumerians believes that gods descended to the earth using the ziggurat as a ladder.
Based on this sentence, which of the following is true?
  1. The Sumerians were monotheistic.
  2. The Sumerians were polytheistic
  3. The Sumerians were agnostic
  4. The Sumerians were ditheistic
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
The ancient Sumerians invented
  1. The wheel
  2. Writing
  3. The frying pan
  4. All of the above
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