WHI.3-Mesopotamia and Egypt

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Persian Gulf

• Fertile Crescent

• Promised Land

• Mesopotamian Delta

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphs

• Alphabet

• Hammurabi

Which of the following were members of the higher classes?

• kings and priests

• artisans

• merchants and traders

• scribes

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans

• scribes

• priests

• merchants

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Kingdom

• Empire

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Menes

• Moses

• Hammurabi

• Abraham

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

More food than as needed by a person.

• Trade

• Domestication

• Surplus

• Irrigation

A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines. It originated in Mesopotamia.

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Sumerian
• Sanskrit