Mesopotamia Chapter Review

VOCAB: A division of _____________________ came about when not all people had to work at

producing food and come could do other jobs.

• Hammurabi

• Labor

• Colony

• Scribe

When they produced more food than they needed to stay alive, they had a

_____________________.

• lot

• supply

• surplus

• more

_____________________ was a main way people made a living

• baking

• teaching

• agriculture

• brick making

VOCAB: In the center of each city was a large _____________________, or religious temple,

made of mud bricks.

• church

• Walmart

• school

• ziggurat

VOCAB: The government in each city-state was a _____________________.

• dictatorship

• economy

• monotheism

• monarchy

VOCAB: Sumer had several independent _____________________.

• city-states

• rulers

• temples

• Abraham

To control the rivers, the Sumerians dug canals and built _____________________.

• dikes

• ziggurats

• temples

• scribe

The two rivers in Sumer were the _____________________ and the _____________________ (select 2).

• Amazon

• Nile

• Tigris

• Euphrates

Sumer was located in _____________________.

• Babylonia

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Ur

The land located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was known as _________________________________________________________

• Mesopotamia

• Ur

• Sumer

• Babylon