LHW Chapter 4: Sunday, Monday...

The land was called_because it lay between two rivers

• Mesothermia

• Mesoamerica

• Mesopotamia

The rivers are the ___ and the ____

• Ganges, Mississippi

• Columbia, Missouri

• Tigris, Euphrates

__is the Middle Eastern country in this land today.

• Iran

• Iraq

• Israel

Because the towns and cities were built with __, they crumbled to rubble

• mud bricks

• concrete

• wood

__was once the greatest city on earth.

• Ur

• Nineveh

• Babylon

_was the Assyrian capital

• Babylon

• Nineveh

• Ur

_was born in Ur.

• Moses

• Abraham

• Nebuchadnezzar

Homes and temples were built as early as_BCE

• 3100

• 6100

• 103

In the tombs were found treasures, including

• Iron cooking pots, harnesses, hammers

• Plows and scythes

• Golden headdresses, helmets, vessels and daggers.

___recorded stories and business dealings.

• Clay tablets

• Papyrus scrolls

• Parchment