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