Mesopotamia!

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• the land of plenty

• the land between rivers

• the middle of the earth

• the land of smart people

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because the women had a lot of babies

• because the animals had a lot of babies

• because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time

• The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

Record keepers who often kept records for government officals

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah