mesopotamia

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called

• priests
• artisans
• scribes 
• heroes

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Sargon
• Cyrillian
• cuneiform
• hieroglypics

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Which of the following is  NOT true of Hammurabi's code?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.
• t was used by many later civilizations as a model
• It treated all people the same under the law.
• It was carved in stone.

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants