The Ancients

A Sumerian temple

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• Ishtar
• battering ram

writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent

What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

• Tigris and Nile
• Tigris and Amazon
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Euphrates and Mississippi

What benefits do rivers provide people? 

• provided fertile soil
• killed crops
• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at

a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

• Fertile Crescent
• polytheism
• cuneiform
• irrigation

What was the purpose of irrigation?

• keep crops dry
• to provide water to crops
• provide indoor plumbing
• give people drinking water

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

Mesopotamia is called the "cradle of civilization" because

• many ideas and inventions used by other later civilizations came from Mesopotamia
• it was the world's first civilization
• none of the above
• It was were most babies were born

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

A ziggurat was a ?

• temple
• fortress
• palace
• tomb