Ancient Mesopotamia

The Fertile Crescent is present-day...

• Egypt
• Ireland

• Iraq
• Persia

City-states offered protection to their citizens with...

• irrigation systems
• strong armies
• good record keeping
• walls around the city

Sumerians were polytheistic.  This means they...

• believed in one god.
• worshiped in a ziggurat.
• believed in many gods.
• created their own government.

Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers...

• Indus and Ganges
• Fox and Wolf
• Ural and Yanghtzee
• Tigris and Euphrates

Because of its rich farmland, Mesopotamia is also known as...

• The Fertile Crescent
• The Farm Factory
• The Fertile Farmland
• The Agricultural Crescent

This Mesopotamian king created the first code of rules for his people.

• Sargon
• Ashurbanipal
• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh

Mesopotamians wrote on

• dirt
• rocks
• Paper
• Clay tablets

There were, at one time, 282 laws that had to be followed. They were known as ...

• Rock River Intermediate Code of Conduct
• Code of Nebechudezzar
• Code of Hammurabi
• Code of Gilgamesh

What is the term for the writing system developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay?

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory- a small area surrounding a larger city.

• city-state

• province

• empire

• Mesopotamia