Mesopotamia

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

• Priests
• Artisans 
• Scribes
• Heros

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.

What did Mesopotamians believe about religion?

• they worshipped one god

• they worshipped their king

• they worshipped many gods

• they didn't believe in gods

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

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

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

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

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

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

Three things that the Sumerians invented were...

• The wheel, writing, and the plow.

• The wheel, top, and toys.

• The wheel, the telephone, and houses

• The wheel, the computer, and guns.

What is cuneiform?

• the first writing system

• a game made with cubes

• the first written law

• a seal

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