Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

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

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

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

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

A payment made to a ruler as a sign of surrender

• tax
• contribution
• tribute
• donation

City-states offered protection to their citizens with...

• irrigation systems
• strong armies
• good record keeping
• walls around the city

Priest in Sumer would offer rituals to?

• communicate with and please the Gods

• Introduced new technology

• the ziggurat and king

• the city-states

The Sumerians believed in Polytheism the belief that...

• spirits that control your life.

• the universe controls your life.

• there are many gods.

• there is a heaven.

The floods benefited Mesopotamia by...

• supplying fresh drinking water.
• giving highly fertile soil.
• removing waste-generated pollution.
• giving strong natural defenses.

What did ancient Sumerians house in ziggurats?

• government leaders
• trade markets
• religious shrines
• slaves