Unit 1-4 Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia means ......

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• the land between the rivers

The flooded rivers of Mesopotamia carried small particles of fertile soil called.....

• irrigation

• silt

• cuneiform

• city-state

Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers?

• Yangtze and Ganges

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Nile and Persian

• Amazon and Rio Grande

In Sumerian city-states, people worshiped in a temple called a ......

• ziggurat

• church

• cathedral

• forum

The wheel, plow, and cuneiform writing are all inventions of the ......

• Egyptians

• kings

• Sumerians

• scribes

Scribes were ancient Sumerians who communicated important information about taxes, land ownership and....

• kings

• crops

• plows

• artisans

The Epic of Gilgamesh ...

• is a story about trade

• was written by Dr. Seuss

• is an example of Mesopotamian literature

• is the holy book of the Jews

Who wrote the world's first written legal code?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• Abraham

Who is considered to be the Father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Nabopolasser

• Abraham

• Hammurabi

Sumerians were polytheistic which means they...

• drove chariots

• made goods

• believed in more than one god

• believed in one god