Mesopotamian Civilization

The Sumerian writing that looked like wedge shapes was called?

• Calligraphy

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

The rivers that were around Mesopotamia were called

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Black Sea and Dead Sea

• Mediterranean River

Scribes wrote on

• paper

• papyrus

• clay tablets

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent

• land in the middle of the desert

• land between the rivers

What is Hammurabi's Code?

• a story of Babylon's creation

• it is the language of Ancient Sumer

• it is a collection of written laws and rules

Sumer is important in world history because it was

• the world's first civilization

• where human beings evolved

• where fishing villages first developed

What city became the center of Hammurabi's Mesopotamian empire?

• Babylon

• Akkadia

• Ur

In which present-day country is Mesopotamia located?

• Iran

• Japan

• Iraq

The people of Ancient Mesopotamia invented the wheel.

• true

• false

Mesopotamia was located in the __________.

• Fertile Crescent

• Sahara Desert

• Sumerian Block