Mesopotamia

Civilizations in Mesopotamia are developed between which two rivers?

• Persian Gulf and Mediterranean

• Persian Gulf and Euphrates

• Tigris and Persian Gulf

• Euphrates and Tigris

The Sumerian writing system is called what?

• Cuneiform

• English

• Hieroglyphs

• Sargon

How was the society ranked in Mesopotamian society?

• Scribes

• Social classes

• By money

• Through their church

A Sumerian temple to honor their god was called a

• Gilgamesh

• Cradle

• Ziggurat

• City-State

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Christianity

• Judaism

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

• Artisans

• Scribes

• Head of Households

• Merchants

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

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Sumer

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is called

• irrigation

• ziggurat

• nomads

• scribes

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Silt

• Fertile Crescent

• Babylon

• Mesopotamia

The word Mesopotamia means

• middle of the fertile crescent

• land between rivers

• land in the middle of the desert

• land north of the sea