Mesopotamia & The Fertile Crescent BMS 6th Grade

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Plain of Syria
• Nile River Delta

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top, has many terraces

• pyramid

• ziggurat

• Ishtar

• battering ram

writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• city-state
• province
• empire
• Mesopotamia

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

• Tigris and Nile

• Tigris and Amazon

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Ganges and Indus

What were the rivers effect on people?

• provided fertile soil
• killed crops
• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Nineveh

• Sargon

Sumerians were

• Monotheistic

• Politheistic

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics

• English

• Sargon