Mesopotamia

What does Monotheism mean?

• Worship one God

• Worship many Gods

Name the two rivers where the first civilization started.

• Tigris

• Euphrates

• Mississippi

• Rock

How did the rivers help the people in Mesopotamia? Click on more than one answer.

• gave them fertile soil

• river for drinking, transportation, and fish

• they could go skiing

• mud for making bricks

Name the different types of land you would find in or around the Fertile Crescent.

• Rivers

• Mountains

• Deserts

• Sea

• Forest

Deserts would be used for?

• Natural barriers/ animals for tools and food

• Stone for tools / Natural barriers

• Irrigation/ trading/ transportation / fishing

The Persian Gulf would be used for:

• Fishing, trading, transporting

• Skiing

• Trees for wagons and wheels, hunting deer

Mountains can be used for:

• Trees for inventions like the wheel

• Fishing, trading, or transporting

Who wrote the 282 codes of law?

• Hammurabi

• Moses

• David

How did the Hammurabi Code of Laws help the people living in this civilization?

• It helped the weak, like children. It also eliminated evil, kept people safe, and treated everybody the same.

• Set of laws that tell how to worship and rules to help people live good lives. They had no punishments.

What did Abraham agree to practice when he made the covenant with God?

• Monotheism

• Polytheism