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Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Which of these leaders was a King of the Akkadians?
  1. Hammurabi
  2. Mr. Selover
  3. Nabopolassar
  4. Sargon
Grade 6 Mesopotamia

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Greek word for "land between the rivers"
  1. Nile
  2. Fertile ground
  3. province
  4. Mesopotamia
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Who served as a link between Sumerians and the gods?
  1. Farmers
  2. War chiefs
  3. Political leaders
  4. Priests
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Who organized the fist city-states?
  1. Priests
  2. Sumerians
  3. Kings
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What were the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
  1. The White Nile and the Blue Nile
  2. The Tigris and the Euphrates
  3. The Rhone and the Seine
  4. The Ganges and the Yangtze
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What was the form of writing created and used by ancient Mesopotamians?
  1. Amoritian
  2. Cuneiform
  3. Assyrian
  4. None of the above
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Why did city-states in Sumer fight each other?
  1. To increase the size of their militaries
  2. To gain more farmland
  3. To gain access to gold
  4. None of the above
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What made Babylonia a fascinating place?
  1. They had beads in their beards
  2. They were named after a baby
  3. They left so many records
  4. They wrote funny stories
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Which is the best explanation for why Mesopotamians built canals?
  1. They needed a way to get water out to their fields.
  2. They needed new routes for their ships.
  3. They needed a way to control low water levels.
  4. They needed a way to control the surplus.
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
                 was a way of supplying water to an area of land.
  1. division of labor
  2. irrigation
  3. polytheism
  4. social hierarchy
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What did Sargon's empire have in common with other Mesopotamian city-states?
  1. It had a professional army.
  2. It covered an area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
  3. It fought with surrounding city-states.
  4. It extended over a greater territory than anyone had ever conquered before.
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
In Hammurabi's laws, what does an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth mean?
  1. You trade eyes and teeth for no reason.
  2. If someone falls and breaks their tooth, they should break someone's arm.
  3. They should take your eye and run.
  4. If you hurt someone, you should feel the same pain.
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
The "land between the rivers" was named __.
  1. Babylon
  2. Sumer
  3. Egypt
  4. Mesopotamia
Grade 6 Mesopotamia
What was the system of Mesopotamian writing called?
  1. Cuneiform
  2. Scribemus
  3. Agora
  4. Socrates
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