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 Euuuuuphrates River

• the Tigris and the Euuuuuphrates River

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

Where did the first civilizations arise because of farming conditions?

• in the mountains
• near the sea
• in river valleys
• n the desert

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

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

The division of the people in a society by rank or class

• Domestication
• Social hierarchy
• Surplus
• Trade Routes

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines. It originated in Mesopotamia.

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Sumerian
• Sanskrit