Mesopotamia

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

• The Nile and the Amazon

• The Tigris and the Euphrates

• The Snake and the Colorado

• The Pol and the Yangtze.

Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called ______________.

• priests

• artisans

• scribes

• heroes

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• levee

• nomads

• ziggurat

• pyramid

record keepers who often kept records for government officials

• irrigation

• nomads

• ziggurat

• scribes

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

• irrigation

• nomads

• ziggurat

• scribes

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because the women had a lot of babies

• because the animals had a lot of babies

• because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time

• The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

Three things that the Sumerians invented were...

• The wheel, writing, and the plow.

• The wheel, top, and toys.

• The wheel, the telephone, and houses

• The wheel, the computer, and guns.

What is cuneiform?

• the first writing system

• a game made with cubes

• the first written law

• a seal

What is a ziggurat?

• a tomb for the king

• a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

• a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices

• a Mesopotamian cigarett.