WHI.2-Fertile Crescent: Egypt, Nubia, etc.

Which choice is the location of Sumer?

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

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

• Heiroglyphics
• Cuneiform
• Sumerian
• Sanskrit

The earliest form of writing in which pictures represented word or ideas

• Cave Paintings

• Pictograms

• Alphabet

• Sumerian

Government that is controlled by religious leaders

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

A belief in one God

• Gilgamesh
• monotheism
• polytheism
• scribe