Ancient Mesopotamia Study Guide!!!

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

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

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

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

The Fertile Crescent soil is...

• dry
• rich
• rocky
• unproductive

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

What is a city-state? 

• Group of traders traveling together
• City & its surrounding land with its own government
• First form of writing made up of lines on tablets
• Market selling goods (mall)

More food than as needed by a person.

• Trade
• Domestication
• Surpus
• Irrigation

Polytheism is the belief that...

• spirits that control your life.
• the universe controls your life.
• there are many gods.
• there is a heaven.

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

• kings and priests
• artisans
• merchants and traders
• scribes