Mesopotamian Civilization

What is one of the six basic characteristics of a civilization?

• Art 
• Grass 
• Dirt 
• Mountains 

What is one of the six basic characteristics of a civilization?

• Streets 
• President 
• Toilets
• Cities

What is one of the six basic characteristics of a civilization?

• Government 
• President 
• Cars 
• Sky 

What is one of the six basic characteristics of a civilization?

• Writing System
• Leader 
• Tribe 
• Bathrooms 

What did the rivers provide the people in the first civilizations?

• Fish and Fresh Water 
• Dirt 
• Houses 
• Bathrooms 

Mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between what two rivers?

• Missouri and Colorad
• Tigris and Euphrates 
• Lincoln and Washington

In what region in southern Mesopotamia had many cities formed by 3000 B.C.?

• Sumer 
• Winter 
• Fall 
• Spring 

What is the name of the world's oldest known story?

• The Three Little Pigs 
• Epic of Gilgamesh 
• Little Red Riding Hood 
• Icarus 

How did Sumerians protect their city states?

• Weapons 
• High Walls 
• Vicious Pets 
• They stank 

Who was Sargon?

• King of California 
• King of England 
• King of Akkadians 
• King of Paris