Mesopotamia Review

The geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is called?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• levee
• Iran

What was an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government ?

• City-State
• Civilization
• Social Structure
• Ziggurat

What is a complex society with religion, government, industry, complex culture, and science?

• city-state

• colony

• civilization

• status

Mesopotamia was located in what present day country

• Russia

• Egypt

• Iran

• Iraq

Lands controlled by one ruler is called

• colony
• empire
• taxation
• village

A scribe is a

• writer
• ruler
• worker
• farmer

Which of the following is NOT related to irrigation?

• ditches
• dams
• canals
• roads   

Laws that followed the idea of an “eye for an eye” is known as

• Code of Laws
• Code of Hammurabi
• Code of Samurai
• Code of Sargon

What is the rich soil left over from flooding?

• artisan
• silt
• scribe
• irrigation

What is wedge-shaped letters written on soft clay?    

• city-state
• scribes
• cuneiform
• ziggurat