Mesopotamia

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

• Priests
• Artisans 
• Scribes
• Heros

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

Artisans, merchants, and fishers made up this group

• Lower Class
• Upper Class
• Middle Class
• Pass Class

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

When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the city-states of Sumer, they created the first

• empire
• huge city-state
• nation
• democracy

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

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

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the

• Red Sea.
• Euphrates River.
• Tigris River.
• Persian Gulf.