Unit 3 - Mesopotamia

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

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon