Flashcards
Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia lays in basins of which two rivers:
Euphrates
Jordan
Nile
Ganges
Tigris
Tiber
People that settled in lower Mesopotamia and created first civilization were:
Sumerians
Akans
Phoenicians
Assirians
Ruler of Mesopotamia, creator of famous codex:
Samsu-iluna
Abi-Eshuh
Hammurabi III
Hammurabi II
Hammurabi I
Pick Summerian civilization achievements:
city state structure
cuneiform script
potters wheel
monotheistic religion
gunpowder
democracy
silk
mummification
caste system
decimal system
city state structure
cuneiform script
potters wheel
decimal system
Which of those literature works was createt in mesopotamian times
Odyssey
Epic of Gilgamesh
Scrolls of Qumran
Book of caves
Natural history
This building is called:
Ziggurat
What is "Standard of Ur"?
a book
a box
a legend
a banner
Who entered the Babylon in 331 BCE?
Assurbanipal
Darius III
Alexander the Great
Sargon the Great
Which of those descriptions doesnt match with Mesopotamia?
Babilonia
Land between rivers
Fertile Crescent
Gift of the Nile
In mesoportamian religion a supreme God, and divine personification of the sky was:
Ra
Enklil
Nintu
Chorus
Anu