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

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• kings and priests
• artisans
• merchants and traders
• scribes

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

The division of the people in a society by rank or class

• Domestication
• Social hierarchy
• Surplus
• Trade Routes

The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

• Division of Labor (Specialization) 
• Polytheism
• Work Force
• Domestication of Labor

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

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

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

The earliest form of writing in which pictures represented word or ideas

• Cave Paintings
• Pictograms
• Hieroglyphics 
• Sumerian