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