Mesopotamia 1

This picture shows an area known as the..

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

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

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• kings and priests
• artisans
• merchants and traders
• scribes

Rule by one person, a king or queen

• Dictatorship
• Theorcracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.

• business class
• lower class
• middle class
• upper class

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

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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

"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• China
• India
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia

A person who writes

• Author
• Scribe
• Hammurabi
• Illustrator

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq