Mesopotamia Quiz

Today we use paper to write on, but in Ancient Mesopotamia they used ________________ to record (write) the cuneiform.

• wood

• clay tablets

Mesopotamia was the first civilization to write down their laws. 

• True 
• False 

Cuneiform symbols were made with wedge shaped marks on clay tablets

• True
• False

Who were the scribes?

• People who traded with other regions.
• People who could read and write

The tool used to write on the clay was called a 

• Pencil 
• Pen 
• Stylus 
• Stick 

Cuneiform was?

• A special agreement
• writing system
• a temple

Which is a Mesopotamian invention?

• The kite
• The wheel
• Kleenex

First known written laws

• Ziggurat

• Cuneiform

• Code of Hammurabi

• Epic of Gilgamesh

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

This picture shows an area known as the..

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