OH Ancient Mesopotamia

Where is Ancient Mesopotamia located?

• Iraq
• Turkey
• Syria
• Iran

What year did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia develop?

• 3200 B.C.
• 3000 B.C.

What is an artisan?

• a farmer
• a ditch digger
• Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
• a scribe

The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in

• cuneiform
• Arabic
• sanskrit
• hieroglyphs

What factors influenced where people settled?

• drinking water and the ability to hunt animals
• drinking water and the ability to grow crops
• hunting animals and the ability to grow crops
• geography and the desert

Bronze is a combination of what two things?

• gold and silver
• copper and tin
• copper and gold
• tin and gold

The Euphrates and Tigris rivers run in what relationship to each other?

• uneven
• parallel

What was a Sumerian temple to honor the gods?

• mud houses
• step pyramids
• pyramids
• ziggurat

Where did the first civilizations arise because of farming? 

• in river valleys
• in deserts
• in the ocean
• in the 

What was cuneiform?

• hieroglyphs
• wedge-shaped marks into clay
• cave drawings
• sanskrit