Ch. 4 Quiz World History

small particles of soil

• silt

• surplus

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

early Mesopotamian farmers used water from which two rivers to water their fields?

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Nile

• Aras

• Jordan

civilizations began o develop around what year?

• 3,000 B.C.

• 10,000 B.C.

• 9,000 A.D.

• 3,000 A.D

These people built the first cities in SW Asia

• Sumerians

• Assyrians

• Babylonians

• Chaldeans

the religious belief that there are many gods

• polytheism

• monotheism

• atheism

• liberalism

the middle class in Sumeria consisted of?

• merchants

• farmers

• fishers

• artisans

• hunters

likely the most important contribution made by the Sumerians

• writing

• bronze work

• first people to use the wheel

• development of a sailboat

Sumerians created a way of writing called?

• cuneiform

• scribes

• epic

• ziggurat

a long poem that tells the story of a hero

• Skyrim

• epic

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

a group of any different lands under one ruler

• empire

• caravan

• tribute

• ziggurat