Mesopotamia

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

Skilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products were called

• Priests
• Artisans 
• Scribes
• Heros

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 code of law that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

A Sumerian temple built in the shape of a pyramid to honor the gods was called a

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

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

What effect did the Phoenicians' trading have on the world?

• More land was conquered.
• Goods and ideas were spread
• More people lived in peace.
• More people battled.

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

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

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Theology