Mesopotamia & Egypt

The Code of Hammurabi in Babylonia was intended to

• free slaves from oppression
• give all people voting rights
• let all people know all the laws
• allow commoners to have more rights

The area known as “Mesopotamia” is found between the rivers

• Nile and Congo
• Danube and Rhine
• Nile and Tigris
• Euphrates and Tigris

Cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing, was probably developed as a means of keeping records of

• Population size
• Religious rituals 
• Trade and commerce 
• numbers of livestock people owned 

Because rivers like the Nile, Tigris, and the Euphrates flooded in ancient times,

• people lived in a constant state of fear as to when the next flood would hit
• land around the river was fertile and capable of supporting farming
• the concepts of cooperation and democracy were founded
• those places were never able to form civilizations  

This style of writing would have been found in which civilization?

• Egyptian 
• Indus
• Shang
• Sumerian 

Which of these is the BEST definition of ‘civilization’ for a history class?

• A group that has a culutre 
• The way people talk 
• The ability to walk upright 
• How sophisticated people behave 

Mesopotamian religion was polytheistic.  Polytheistic means

• the belief in gods in nature
• the belief that god was everywhere
• the belief that priests were kings
• The belief in more than one god 

The MAIN reason for the construction of the pyramids was to

• intimidate potential invaders of the Egyptian kingdom
• convince peasants of the greatness of the pharaoh
• serve as burial tombs for Egyptian pharaohs
• serve as burial tombs for important people

Papyrus would have been MOST important in the Egyptians’ ability to

• Irrigate 
• Communicate 
• Build pyramids 
• defeat invaders 

The Hebrews were monotheistic, meaning they

• Believed in one god
• followed the teachings of the Torah 
• Believed spirits lived in all things 
• Wrote down the teachings of a sacred book