Ancient Mesopotamia

What is cuneiform?

• Wedge shaped writings?

• A type of food

• Tool used to write on clay tablets

What are the five features of a civilization?

• Humans, landscape, food, jobs and animals

• Complex institutions, advanced cities, technology, record keeping, specialized jobs

• Money, houses, books, medicine and nature

The first civilization to arise in Mesopotamia was that of the:

• Babylonians

• Phonecians

• Persians

• Sumerians

Mesopotamia means?

• Fertile land

• The first civilization

• land between two rivers

• silt

What is the definition of civilization?

• Buildings that trade

• Advanced state of human society

• People

In what present day country is Mesopotamia in?

• Egypt

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

What is the religion of the Sumerians

• Monotheistic

• Christian

• Agnostic

• Polytheistic

Ancient priests and kings built temples to worship their many gods. What were these temples?

• Ziggurats

• Shrines

• Sanctuaries

• Churches

What two rivers run through the fertile crescent?

• Yellow and Yangtze

• Blue and White Nile

• Tigris and Euphrates

How many law codes did King Hammurabi develop?

• 300

• 292

• 282

• 400