Topic 2 Test Mesopotamia & Egypt

What achievement built in Egypt served as a burial tomb for the pharaohs?

• Pyramids
• Ziggurats
• Pit houses
• Mahabharatta

Egyptians had a written language using pictures. It was called ____________.

• cuneiform
• English
• hieroglyphics
• Cursive

___________ ruled Egypt as a god-king

• Pharaohs
• Nobles
• Soliders
• Merchants

Writing paper created in Ancient Egypt.

• Ankh
• reedarus
• obelisk
• papyrus

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

What was the Sumerian writing in Mesopotamia called?

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

What is a Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called?

• pyramid

• cradle.

• Gilgamesh.

• ziggurat.

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?

• middle of the fertile crescent

• land in the middle of the desert

• land between the rivers

• land north of the sea

In the Egypt the process of preserving human bodies for the afterlife is called __________.

• mummification
• preserved
• polytheistic
• monotheistic