Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

• Mississippi and Rock
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Missouri and Wisconsin
• Nile and Amazon

What 3 major civilizations occupied the Fertile Crescent during Ancient Mesopotamia?

• Seminoles, Sioux, and Fox
• Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians
• Chinese and Japanese and British
• Egyptians, Africans ,and Spanish

There were, at one time, 282 laws that had to be followed. They were known as ...

• Rock River Intermediate Code of Conduct
• Code of Nebechudezzar
• Code of Hammurabi
• Code of Gilgamesh

The Assyrians had an advantage over other civilizations because of :

• Chariots, horses, and iron weapons
• slingshots, arrows, and spears
• horses, cows, and bunnies
• New Nike shoes

Empires of Mesopotamia built __________________ to honor their gods.

• statues
• pyramids
• ziggurats
• roads

True or False? Mesopotamians invented the wheel.

• True
• False

Who was the Babylonian King who created the earliest known collection/ code of laws?

• Sargon
• Hammurabi
• Eannatum
• Nebuchadnezzar

What is the term for the writing system developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay?

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• city-state
• province
• empire
• Mesopotamia

What did King Nebuchadnezzar build for one of his wives? 

• Written Laws
• A Ziggurat
• Hanging Gardens
• Calendars