Mesopotamia

This picture shows an area known as the..

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

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• kings and priests
• artisans
• merchants and traders
• scribes

A Sumerian temple to honor their main god was called

• a temple

• a pyramid

• a city-state

• a ziggurat.

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

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

Ruled by one person, a king or queen that is in charge is called a

• Dictatorship

• Theorcracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Sumerian artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group.

• business class
• lower class
• middle class
• upper class

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because they liked the word fertile since it means fruit

• because the animals had a lot of babies and fertile means to be able to produce many things

• because the moon was in a crescent and they worshipped the moon

• The land was fertile meaning it produced a lot of crops and it is shaped like a crescent moon.