Mesopotamia

Farming in Mesopotamia was made possible by which 2 rivers?

• Nile & Amazon
• Mississippi & Red
• Tigris & Euphrates
• None of the Above

A fertile region in southwestern Asia that includes the region of Mesopotamia:

• Sumer
• Assyria
• Babylonia
• Fertile Crescent

The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations is called what?

• Johnny's
• McDonald's
• Ninevah
• Mesopotamia

A system of writing that used wedge-shaped symbols to represent sounds, ideas, and objects; developed in ancient Sumer - 

• Hieroglyphics
• scribes
• Ziggurat
• Cuneiform

A self-governing city, often with surrounding lands and villages:

• village
• manor
• metropolis
• city-state

A large temple located in the centers of ancient Sumerian cities:

• church
• tabernacle
• pyramid
• Ziggurat

The belief in many gods and goddesses -

• monotheism
• Geico
• covering all your bases
• polytheism

What civilization created an alphabet which was adopted by the Greeks and later by the Romans?

• Ye Olde England
• Ancient France
• Amalakites
• Phoenicians

What civilization was famous for its purple dye that it traded with its colonies around the Mediterranean Sea?

• Caddo Indian
• Phoenicia
• all the above
• none of the above

King of the Babylonian empire; creator of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest codes of law -

• Cyrus
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Gilgamesh
• Hammurabi