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Mesopotamia: Environment and History

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  • City-states in Mesopotamia were ruled by _____
    kings
  • How did the Mesopotamian civilisation come to an end?
    The Persians conquered the region in the 6th century
  • Nebuchadnezzar II was the most famous ruler of which empire?
    The Neo-Babylonian Empire
  • Mesopotamian civilisation was developed between which two rivers?
    Tigris and Euphrates
  • What is known as the Great Pyramid of Giza?
    The Pyramid of Khufu
  • True or False? The Assyrian Empire was formed before the Akkadian Empire.
    FALSE
  • True or False? In 2300 BC, King Sargon conquered the Sumerian city-states and founded the Babylonian empire.
    FALSE
  • Who conquered the Sumerian city-states in 2300 BC?
    King Sargon
  • True or False? The Neo-Babylonian Empire was founded in the 21st Century.
    FALSE
  • True or False? Early civilisations did not have urban life and writing, and did not share similar customs and beliefs.
    False
  • True or False? In 3000 BC, the Sumerians lived in independent city-states like Uruk and Ur.
    TRUE
  • True or False? The first Babylonian Empire was established after 1800 BC.
    FALSE
  • The Huang He and Yangtze Rivers can be found in _____
    China
  • What were used to take water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
    irrigation canals
  • In the 7th Century BC, the Assyrian Empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the _____
    Persian Gulf
  • What were the four empires of Mesopotamia?
    Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian
  • When kings expand their territories by conquest and alliances, these territories become _____
    empires
  • What was the largest Mesopotamian empire?
    Assyrian Empire
  • What was the biggest city in the world 5000 years ago?
    Uruk in Sumer
  • What does "Mesopotamia" mean in Greek?
    between two rivers
  • When did Mesopotamian civilisation begin?
    fourth millennium BC
  • True or False? Mesopotamia was a very dry region
    TRUE
  • True or False? In river civilisations, most people were very poor.
    TRUE
  • What do you call the writing system developed in Sumer, in Mesopotamia? It was written on clay tablets using a reed.
    Cuneiform