Mesopotamia (w/empires)

Who created the Babylonian legal code that regulated most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Nineveh

• Sargon

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphs

• English

• Latin

When the Akkadians conquered the city-states of Sumer they created the first

• empire

• country

• nation

• democracy

A Sumerian temple to honor the city god was called a

• scribe

• cradle

• arch

• ziggurat

What type of religion did the Sumerians have?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

What is the green area of land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf where people first farmed?

• Mesopotamia

• Fertile Crescent

• Middle East

• Sumer

What was the earliest form of writing in which pictures represented word or ideas?

• Pictoterms

• Pictographs

• Cuneiform

• Phonograms

What was "the land between the rivers?"

• Sumer
• Fertile Crescent
• Israel
• Mesopotamia

What is more food than needed by a person?

• Trade
• Domesticate
• Surplus
• Irrigation

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• Iran
• Israel
• Syria
• Iraq