Mesopotamia & Fertile Crescent

What is the practice of worshiping of many gods called?

• monotheism

• atheistic

• polytheism

• theocracy

Cuneiform was Sumerian writing that got its name from its flat shape.

• True

• False

Which riversis Mesopotamia located between?

• Tigris

• Nile

• Crescent

• Euphrates

Cuneiform was used for all the following except

• livestock sales

• accounting records

• as the first alphabet

• as a stylus

Which social class included priests and nobles?

• farmers

• nobles

• commoners

• slaves

Which social class included craftsmen who worked for nobles?

• farmers

• nobles

• slaves

• commoners

About 90% of which social class made up the majority of the population.

• farmers

• nobles

• craftsmen

• commoners

How many laws made up Hammurabi's code?

• 196

• 282

• 75

• 324

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Plain of Syria
• Nile River Delta

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the tops, has many terraces

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• Ishtar
• battering ram