Ancient Mesopotamia-2020

This picture shows an area known as the..

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

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

"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• China
• India
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia

Belief in more than one god

• Polytheism
• Monotheism
• Theocracy
• Theology

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Who created the Babylonian legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammurabi
• Nineveh
• Sargon

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

A Sumerian temple to honor their god was called a

• scribe
• cradle
• Gilgamesh
• ziggurat

The Sumerians invented something that made it possible for their armies to use chariots. What was it?  

• harnesses
• domesticated animals
• wheels
• horseshoes

Identify this Empire

• Alexander the Great

• Persian

• Islamic

• Roman

Identify the Euphrates River

• 1

• 3

• 4

• 5