Mesopotamia Review

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.

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

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

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Theology

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

What were the rivers effect on people?

• provided fertile soil
• killed animals

• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at