Ch. 4 Mesopotamia

Which was an ancient writing system that involved cutting wedge-shaped marks into clay?

• Hieroglyphics
• Cuneiform.
• Cyrillic.

Mesopotamia’s climate was

• always cold.
• temperate.
• hot and dry.
• tropical 

What is an amount left over after a need has been met?

• Increase
• Decrease
• Surplus
• Shortage

What is polytheism? 

• belief in no gods
• belief in one god
• belief in more then one god
• belief you are a god

Mesopotamia is in present day Iraq, what is the climate life like there?

• rainy
• dry and hot
• humid
• cold

What is irrigation?

• Rivers that cause floods
• a system for bringing wood to a sailboat 
• A place where people govern themselves
• a system that brings water through ditches or pipes to dry land

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe
• cradle
• Gilgamesh 
• ziggurat 

Which was an ancient writing system that involved cutting wedge-shaped marks into clay?

• Cuneiform.
• Cyrillic
• Hieroglyphics
• Sargon

What is an epic?

• long river
• long poem
• long temple
• short river

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris