River Valley Civilizations Review -Meso, Egypt, India, China

MESOPOTAMIA-This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

MESOPOTAMIA-Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

MESOPOTAMIA-The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

MESOPOTAMIA-Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

MESOPOTAMIA-What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

MESOPOTAMIA-Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

MESOPOTAMIA-The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

MESOPOTAMIA-Rule by one person, a king or queen

• Dictatorship
• Theorcracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

MESOPOTAMIA-Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer