Ancient Mesopotamia Quiz 2021

Land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Assyria

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Fertile Crescent

Agricultural areas with a walled city in the center of the region, ruled by its own government led by a king.

• empire

• city-state

• Fertile Crescent

• monarchy

Important king who developed an overarching set of laws for all citizens to follow.

• Sumer

• Hammurabi

• Tirgris

• Nebuchadnezzar

The belief that kings were part man and part god.

• monotheism

• Gilgamesh

• polytheism

• demi-god

In the Persian Gulf is where they found ancient ruins underground, archaeologists did lots of _____________ down, by the Euphrates River

• expectation

• extrapolation

• excavation

• polytheism

Written language that evolved from pictographs to phonographs.

• Alphabet

• cuneiform

• surplus

• Gilgamesh

A religious belief in more than one god.

• ancestor-worship

• monotheism

• polytheism

• cuneiform

One of the oldest-surviving and most famous stories about a demigod king.

• Akkadiam Empire

• cuneiform

• Epic of Gilgamesh

• scribes

Ancient Mesopotamia started out as a:

• Army looking to conquer foreign lands

• center for trade

• farming community

• center for slave trading

Mesopotamia had very fertile soil because of:

• Farmers who constantly fertilized the land

• abundant wildlife popluation

• heavy winds that constantly blew new rich soil into the land

• yearly floods from nearby rivers bringing new and fertile soil