Mesopotamia/Ancient Egypt Quiz

What is a city-state?

• A city that turned into a state

• Small, independent countries with their own farmland

• Large cities that were used for trading

• Another name for a town

This earliest form of writing was developed in Mesopotamia.

• Hieroglypics

• Cuneiform

• Latin

• English

The Egyptians and Mesopotamians believed in many gods. What is this called?

• Montheistic.

• Polytheistic.

Who was the most powerful person in Egyptian society?

• none of the above.

• queen.

• king.

• pharaoh.

a set of about 282 laws put together by Hammurabi

• Code of Hammurabi
• covenant
• Ten Commandments
• Monotheism

the temple at the center of a Sumerian city.

• temple
• ziggurat
• Torah
• David and the Goliath

Land located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Assyria

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumer

• Babylon

this allowed historians to read ancient Egyptian writings

• pharaohs

• alphabet

• Torah

• Rosetta Stone

writing system that used symbols to represent sounds or words

• monotheistic

• Diaspora

• Torah

• hieroglyphics

Huge, triangular shaped burial tombs of Egyptian pharaohs built during the Old Kingdom.

• ziggurat

• mastaba

• theocracy

• pyramid