Mesopotamia 2

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

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.

Rule by one person, a king or queen

• Dictatorship
• Theorcracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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

What agricultural techniques encouraged surplus production?

• plows
• canals
• levees
• all of the above

_____________ was the king who created the first empire in Mesopotamia.

• Hammurabbi
• Nebudchadnezzar
• David
• Sargon

More food than as needed by a person.

• Trade
• Domestication
• Surplus
• Irrigation