Ancient Mesopotamia

The first civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed into urban city-states was called ______________________.

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Ancient India

• Ancient China

An advanced organized society with cities is called

• village

• civilization

• settlement

• clan

What helped bring more food and created a surplus in ancient Mesopotamia?

• new inventions

• the wagon wheel

• praying to the Gods

• Agriculture

The area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared was the city of

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Nineveh

• Cairo

How did the people in ancient Mesopotamia bring water into their dry fields to help crops grow?

• prayed to the Gods for rain

• irrigation and digging ditches

• carrying water on wagons

• digging wells

The first writing system created by the ancient Mesopotamia was

• cuneiform

• pictographs

• Arabic

• hieroglyphics

Sumerians believed in many gods this is called

• monotheism

• polytheism

• Buddhism

• Judaism

What was the structure built by the Sumerians called they could be as tall as 100 feet?

• Pyramids

• Ziggurat

• temples

• mosque

Mesopotamia had a king or a ________________

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Pharaoh

• theocracy

A professional person who recorded history in Mesopotamia was called a __________

• scribe

• slave

• servant

• priests