Mesopotamia / Egypt / Indus / China Homework

Did you put your FIRST and LAST name before starting?

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___________ ruled Egypt as a god-king

• Pharaohs
• Nobles
• Soliders
• Merchants

Egyptians had a written language using pictures. It was called ____________.

• cuneiform
• English
• hieroglyphics
• Cursive

Writing paper created in Ancient Egypt.

• Ankh
• reedarus
• obelisk
• papyrus

This picture of Mesopotamia shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve

• Fertile Crescent

• Green C

• Fertile Curve

What was the Sumerian writing in Mesopotamia called?

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• pyramid
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

The first civilizations arose in__________ because the conditions for farming were good.

• mountains
• deserts
• river valleys
• none of the above

What does polytheistic mean?

• the belief in one god
• the belief in more than one god