RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

Skilled workers who made metal, cloth, or pottery products were called

• Priests
• Artisans 
• Scribes
• Heros

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve

• Fertile Crescent

• Green Sea

• 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

Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi's code?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.

• Other civilizations began to write out laws based on this code.

• It treated all people equally under the law.

• It was carved in stone.

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

How were Mesopotamian and Hindu religions similar?

• Both believed in Monotheism

• Both believed in Jesus

• Both believed in Polytheism

• Both believed in Reincarnation

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer