Ch. 3 Mesopotamia Review

Ancient Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

• Ubangi and Senegal

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Congo and Zambezi

• Nile and Blue

Which were three major civilizations that occupied the Fertile Crescent during Ancient Mesopotamian times?

• Zulu, Visigoths, and Magdalenians

• Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians

• Chinese and Japanese, and British

• Egyptians, Igbo, and Hutu

Mesopotamians wrote on

• animal hides

• lava rocks like obsidian

• paper or papyrus

• clay tablets

Ancient Mesopotamia is mostly within the borders of which modern country?

• Iran

• Saudi Arabia

• Lebanon

• Iraq

What is irrigation?

• a natural water source like a stream or lake

• watering fields using human made systems

• a type of radiation used for dating ancient civilizations

• large gates on ziggurats

Why were Sumerian communities called city-states?

• Each of them kept written records.

• They were all part of one great empire.

• They all depended on each other for water.

• Each of them had its own ruler and farmland.

In Ancient Mesopotamia, a wedge-shaped stylus was used to produce...

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

• the alphabet

• petroglyphs

What is cuneiform?

• cave art made by Sumerians

• a written language made of wedge-shape characters

• an ancient type of unicorn

What is this?

• A chariot

• A lyre

• A ziggurat

• An artisan's home

Sargon the Great was the ruler of which empire?

• Assyrian Empire

• Akkadian Empire

• Sumerian Empire

• Phoenician Empire