Fertile Crescent Vocabulary

To worship many gods is known as..

• monotheism

• polytheism

• agnostic

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that is present day Iraq was known as...

• Iran

• Mesopotamia

• Minnesota

A writing system that used triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things...

• colorforms

• cuneiform

• phonics

A brick pyramid-shaped temple with a flat top found in Mesopotamia...

• Ziggurat

• Zigzag

• Zimzam

A professional writer was called a ....

• author

• scibbler

• scribe

A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretched from the Mediterranean coast through Mesopotamia

• Fertile Gibbous

• Fertile Crescent

• Fertile Myrtle

The king believed that he was chosen to have absolute power from the ____________ to rule.

• goddesses

• gods

• people

Who ran the government and made the laws?

• Men

• Women

• Children

In what region of the world would you find the Fertile Crescent?

• Middle East

• Mid-West

• Africa

The Sumerians developed a water system to help build the first cities, what is the water system known as?

• Impossible

• Ignorance

• Irrigation