Mesopotamia Flashcard

Which of the following locations was most favorable for growing crops and raising livestock? desert, peninsula, river valley, archipelago

What is the Fertile Crescent?

What was the writing system of Sumerians called?

Which of the following best describes Mesopotamian religion? Options: polytheism, irrigation, monotheism, domestication

What are the earliest known written collection of laws called?

Which of the following lived in ancient Mesopotamia? Sumerians and Babylonians, Egyptians and Sumerians, Athenians and Babylonians, Egyptians and Phoenicians

What was a long-lasting achievement of the Phoenicians? Options: alphabet, ziggurat, pictographs, architecture

What is a political unit consisting of an urban area and the surrounding rural countryside called?

What is a ziggurat?

Which of the following were not achievements of the Mesopotamian cultures? plow, wheel, canals, dams, ziggurats, cuneiform, indoor plumbing, Hindu-Arabic Numerals