A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent - shaped curve that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

*Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

*Earliest known civilization

• Fertile Crescent

• Asia

• City-State

• Polytheism

A wide flat plain in present day Iraq.

Within the fertile crescent

• Barter

• City-State

• Mesopotamia

• Ziggurats

Which continent was Mesopotamia located on?

• South America

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

Mesopotamia is a plain between which TWO rivers? (choose 2)

• Euphrates River

• Hudson River

• Nile River

• Tigris River

What technology increased the amount of farmland in the Fertile Crescent by bringing water to the fields?

• alphabet

• rule of law

• irrigation canals

• iron

What is the name for an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory? Sumer was the first.

• city

• city-state

• state-city

• kingdom

What was the first city-state?

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

• Fertile Crescent

• Polytheism

Trading system in which people exchanged goods directly without using money

• Ziggurats

• Cuneiform

• Polytheism

• Barter

The belief in more than one God

*Sumerians believed these Gods controlled Everything

• Import

• Cuneiform

• Barter

• Polytheism

Pyramid shaped brick tower, temples in which people worshiped Gods.

• Polytheism

• ziggurats

• cuneiform

• exports