Mesopotamia Review

Ancient area with its own government and culture

• Mesopotamia

• city-state

• Scribe

• Ziggurat

Large area of city-states controlled by one ruler

• kingdom

• city-state

• empire

• palace

Ancient Babylonian Epic Poem

• Three Little Pigs

• The Torah

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

Collection of 282 ancient Babylonian Laws

• Cuneiform

• Judaism

• Hammurabi's Code

• Polytheism

In Mesopotamia, floods deposited silt, which made the soil

• dry

• rocky

• fertile

• old

A civilization is best referred to as

• moving from one place to another

• a group of people

• a high level of cultural and technological development

• farming

The Sumerians were credited with the invention of

• glass and the plow

• the tractor

• cars

• wheel and the plow

The Kingdom that covered all of Mesopotamia, ruled by King Hammurabi

• Sumeria

• Assyria

• Babylonia

• Hittites

Which readily available water resource was crucial to the development of Mesopotamia?

• The Persian Gulf

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• The Nile River

What is the name of the earliest known writing system, which was developed in Mesopotamia?

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Cursive

• Clay Script