Ancient Mesopotamia

This picture shows an area known as the..

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

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

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

Sumer is important because it was...

• the world's first civilization
• the world's largest empire
• where humans evolved
• where fishing villages first developed

The Fertile Crescent soil is...

• dry
• rich
• rocky
• unproductive

The Fertile Crescent is present-day...

• Egypt

• Russia

• Iraq

• United Kingdom

The only people in Mesopotamia who could read or write were...

• kings
• merchants
• priests
• scribes

The Babylonian King who wrote 282 laws...

• Cyrus
• Abraham
• Hammurabi
• Moses

Priest in Sumer...

• communicated with the Gods
• Introduced new technology
• lead the economy
• ran farms