Mesopotamia Review

This picture shows an area known as the..

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

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

Which of the following were members of the upper class?

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

When the Akkadians under Sargon conquered the city-states of Sumer, they created the first

• empire
• huge city-state
• nation
• democracy

Which of the following is  NOT true of Hammurabi's code?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.
• t was used by many later civilizations as a model
• It treated all people the same under the law.
• It was carved in stone.

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer