Mesopotamian Art

Mesopotamia is one of the first examples of

• Agricultural revolution.

• Industrial revolution

• Ideological revolution

• Urban revolution.

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers. Name the two rivers.

• The Nile and the Amazon

• The Tigris and the Euphrates

• The Nile and the Colorado.

• The Pol and the Yangtze.

Cylinder seals left the imprint of an image just like a __________.

• stamp

• stencil

• sticker

• pen

Why do cylinder seals have holes in them?

• they are broken

• to use as a straw

• to wear on a string like a necklace

• to look through like a telescope

Cylinder seals were rolled onto wet _______.

• mud

• clay

• paint

• sand

All of these people are considered Mesopotamians except:

• Minoans

• Akaadians

• Sumererians

• Babylonians

The Assyrians came up with this type of art?

• mosaic

• relief sculpture

• silk painting

• impressionism

Who is featured here atop the stele of laws that they enacted?

• Nebuchanezzer and Gilgmesh

• Sumer and Ahkadian

• Hammurabi and Shamash

• Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs.

The Sumerian writing that looked like wedge shapes was called?

• Calligraphy

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

• Hieroglyphs

A carved or inscribed upright stone

• mosaic

• lamassus

• stele

• obelisk