Mesopotamia Review

Organization and status where those at the bottom provide most of the work but have least responsibility. Those towards the top have more power and responsibility.

• Social Heirarchy
• Social Studies
• City-States
• Socialism

A state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it.

• Country
• City-State
• United States
• Mesopotamia

An ancient Mesopotamian pyramid-shaped tower with a square base, rising in stories of decreasing size, with a terrace at each story and a temple at the very top.

• Pyramid
• Step Pyramid
• Temple
• Ziggaraut

Was one of earliest writing systems developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia.

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Coneiform
• Cuneyiform

Is very fine sediment that is usually found in or near bodies of water it is often extremely fertile and an aid to human agriculture.

• Slit
• Salt
• Silt
• Stalt

A set of 282 laws governing daily life in Ancient Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws.

• Hammurabi's Code
• Hammurabi's Cell phone
• Magna Carta
• US Constitution

A large arc of fertile land between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.

• Arc Crescent
• Fertile Arc
• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia Crescent

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism