Ancient Mesopotamia

The Sumerian writing system was called __________.

• Sargon

• Cyrillian

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

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

• priests

• artisans

• scribes

• heroes

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Ninevah

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• levee

• nomads

• ziggurat

• pyramid

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

• irrigation

• nomads

• ziggurat

• scribes

record keepers who often kept records for government officials

• irrigation

• nomads

• ziggurat

• scribes

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean

• the Tigris and the Nile

• the Euphrates and Mississippi

• the Euphrates and the Tigris

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State

• Country

• Villiage

• Culture

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq